Bug#604627: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: megasas: Failed to alloc kernel SGL buffer for IOCTL
Moin Bjørn,
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:24:55 +0100, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> wrote:
> But after nagging about it recently, it appears that the driver
> maintainer didn't really understand the issue. The last I heard from
> LSI was this: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=129549117927641 which
> wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that it was sent well
> *after* that I already had done exactly that, as FUJITA Tomonori
> helpfully pointed out in a reply to that message....
lol :)
> So I honestly don't know. Looks like getting it upstream will still
> take some time. Maybe the Debian kernel maintainers can take it as a
> temporary bugfix until it gets there? The fix is rather obvious (in my
> eyes at least :-).
I hope that the Debian Kernel Maintainers will catch up this patch
and will include it in the next update.
Thanks for your work Bjørn! Well done.
And I repeat: the patch works! I have lots of machines with such
kind of controller and all machines are working fine after I have
applied the patch.
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ciao, Marc
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