Re: [smartmontools-support]Marvell 88SX50 / linux 2.6.9 / deprecated SCSI ioctl

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 16:58, jb...@fo... wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:06:00PM -0600, Bruce Allen wrote:
> > > > This is more of a request than anything - we've just bought a number of 
> > > > server machines with P4SCT+ M/boards and the Marvell 88SX5041 chipset. 
> > > > Support added to smartmontools in 5.33 is great, and works very nicely.
> 
> > > > There are just a couple of minor comments, however. Firstly, there's the 
> > > > case of the ioctl() / SG_IO messages when accessing through /dev/sd?:
> > > > 
> > > > 'program smartctl is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to 
> > > > SG_IO'
> > > 
> > > Could you check and see if this has gone away with the current CVS
> > > image?  If not I can ask our SCSI maintainer to fix it.
> > 
> > CVS version still produces the same messages, unfortunately.
> > 
> Uhm, I have not read into the SCSI subsystem changes documentation in
> 2.6.x, but could you find out which SCSI generic ioctl is the problem
> here?

Doug, you probably already know this.  If there is an easy fix, can you
help Leon to figure it out in time for 5.34.

Jeremy, please run the command again, but this time add:
 -r ioctl,3
to the command line, and write back to the list, attaching the output as a
.txt file.

Cheers,
	Bruce