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authorMike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>2006-12-18 10:59:39 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2006-12-18 10:59:39 +0100
commit89f97ad1894ab518b05b798906085fb3d1b2d00f (patch)
tree03e430c963937dc013e5a083a33cf788bd66d798 /drivers/block
parentMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq (diff)
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[PATCH] cciss: set default raid level when reading geometry fails
This patch sets a default raid level on a volume that either does not support reading the geometry or reports an invalid geometry for whatever reason. We were always setting some values for heads and sectors but never set a raid level. This caused lots of problems on some buggy firmware. Please consider this for inclusion. Thanks, mikem Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/cciss.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index d719a5d8f435..67a6d4a9343a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -1907,6 +1907,7 @@ static void cciss_geometry_inquiry(int ctlr, int logvol,
"does not support reading geometry\n");
drv->heads = 255;
drv->sectors = 32; // Sectors per track
+ drv->raid_level = RAID_UNKNOWN;
} else {
drv->heads = inq_buff->data_byte[6];
drv->sectors = inq_buff->data_byte[7];