Doug Chapman wrote:

This patch has been submitted upstream but I don't know if it will get pulled in to Fedora through the normal channels prior to F10 or not. Without this patch Fedora 10 will not install on cciss which breaks nearly all HP server systems.

thanks,

I think it is important to get this in for HP systems (which I often use to test with)...

Chuck, Dave? Think we can take this one-liner in?

P.

• Doug

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Subject: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: fix regression, sysfs symlink missing From: Mike Miller mike.miller@hp.com Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:46:49 -0500 To: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org, JensAxboejens.axboe@oracle.com

To: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org, JensAxboejens.axboe@oracle.com CC: LKML linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, LKML-scsi linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dchapman@redhat.com, hare@novell.com, sandy.garza@hp.com, karen.skweres@hp.com

Patch 1 of 1

This patch fixes a regression where the device symlink to the pci address is not created. Offending commit 6ae5ce8e8d4de666f31286808d2285aa6a50fa40, cciss: rmove redundant code.

Please consider this for inclusion.

signed-off-by: Mike Miller mike.miller@hp.com

diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c index 1e1f915..44fb98e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c @@ -1365,6 +1365,7 @@ static void cciss_add_disk(ctlr_info_t *h, struct gendisk *disk, disk->first_minor = drv_index << NWD_SHIFT; disk->fops = &cciss_fops; disk->private_data = &h->drv[drv_index];

• disk->driverfs_dev = &(hba[drv_index]->pdev->dev);

  /* Set up queue information */ blk_queue_bounce_limit(disk->queue, h->pdev->dma_mask);

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