From: Mike Miller Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:59:39 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [PATCH] cciss: set default raid level when reading geometry fails X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20-rc2~79^2~8 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=89f97ad1894ab518b05b798906085fb3d1b2d00f;p=linux-2.6 [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 Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c index d719a5d8f4..67a6d4a934 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];