Re: [PATCH] cciss: do not attempt to read from a write-only register

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Sat Jul 23 2011 - 07:58:07 EST


On 2011-07-23 00:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:16:01 -0500
> "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Most smartarrays will tolerate it, but some new ones don't.
>> Without this change some newer Smart Arrays will lock up
>> and i/o will grind to a halt.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> No Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>?

Patch is already queued up in for-3.1/drivers since July 9th, and I also
marked it stable.

--
Jens Axboe

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