-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-07-29 at 00:22 -0700, Kurt Wall wrote:

On Monday 28 July 2008 23:59:19 David C. Rankin wrote:

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Listmates,

Another curiosity are the following dmesg errors related to a 'sd' driver that needs updating. The new 11.0 system seems to run OK, but there does seem to be an occasional read-write head full-swing excursion that has caught my attention. The dmesg output is below with the hwinfo information for the disk drive that follows:

[dmesg noise snipped]

<wag>Sounds like the driver is using an out-of-date, obsolete, or soon-to-be-if-not-already-deprecated interface and needs to be updated by the driver maintainer.</wag>

If that is so, the proper thing to do is open a bugzilla. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIjvJ4tTMYHG2NR9URAlBIAJ4yLhB5H7eLByJEX2EyRPplx6anCgCghfvi IlB8miGUdHYSeacaW/o4XMk= =uatU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Larry Stotler wrote:

Here's a message from the kernel mailing list:

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"Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods"

The warning never appeared in RC6, and all google reveals are other peoples logs that are posted about other issues.

Do I need to fix up something here? No, you don't. It's harmless, a side effect of:

commit 751bf4d7865e4ced406be93b04c7436d866d3684 Author: James Bottomley Date: Wed Jan 2 11:14:30 2008 -0600

[SCSI] scsi_sysfs: restore prep_fn when ULD is removed

It would be better to silence this warning.

James, we need to reset prep_fn in each ULD? though it's not nice...

What's frustrating is that they are making everthing look like scsi now. IDE, USB, etc. And, they also brought back the /dev/sr0 for burners. That used to be an ide-scsi hack, which Linus didn't like. Then they fixed it so that it wasn't needed, and now they've changed it again to make it again look like scsi. I dunno.

Thank you Larry: Yes, I recall The change to scsi everything came back in incrementally somewhere between 10.0 and 10.2 on openSuSe where we went from /dev/cdrecorder to /dev/sr0 for burners and /dev/hd(abcd) to /dev/sd(abcd) for PATA interfaces. Carlos, if this is the case, and the issue is known, would a bug report help in this case and help put the focus back on the problem or is this now part of the class of bugs that will just automatically be "closed" "INVALID"? Obviously if the warning is generated by base/driver.c:driver_register() due to the change back to using the scsi bus type for everything, then it needs to be fixed. Let me know if it is something that needs to be filed and I'm happy to do it but I don't want to waste time on another closed/invalid bug type. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org