Re: 2.5.69-70 ide-cd to guarantee fault-free CD/DVD burning experience?

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, May 28 2003, Andy Polyakov wrote:
> Linux is setting new landmarks all the time. Linux 2.5 is taking CD/DVD
> burning to whole new level by *guaranteeing* fault-free burning
> experience. No more hassle with overburns, underruns, poorly supported
> media, positioning errors, power calibration failures, you name it...
> It just works [by keeping the user-land totally unaware of errors
> conditions raised by the logical unit]. Welcome to the future:-)

;-))

> Well, I'm probably pushing this joke too far:-) In such case accept the
> apologies along with this patch which makes it possible to access the
> sense data returned by IDE CD/DVD units from user-land with SG_IO ioctl.
> As for the last part, req->data?req->data:req->buffer. I'm not sure if
> it's "the right thing(tm)" to do, but an error condition (dereferencing
> of NULL pointer to be specific) is raised otherwise, whenever call to
> bio_map_user in drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c fails. The patch is
> applicable at least to 2.5.69 and 2.5.70.
> 
> As for 69-ac. SG_IO doesn't work there at all (kernel logs "confused,
> missing data" and then "N residual after xfer"). As far as I can tell
> drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c needs a "face lift," but that's AC's(?)
> concern.

69-ac doesn't have the data direction fix yet probably, after the rq-dyn
alloc patch.

> As for scsi_ioctl.c in more general sense. It apparently doesn't comply
> with SG HOWTO, in particular it mis-interprets time-out values.
> Background information and patch is available at
> http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/scsi_ioctl-2.5.69.patch.
> There're couple of other issues, usage of 'bytes' variable in access_ok
> and DMA being off when bio_map_user fails, that needs some further
> discussion in my opinion. As for discussion. Please note that I'm not
> on the linux-kernel list so that keep me on Cc:.

Well care to expand on these?

> 
> Cheers. A.
> 8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
> --- ./drivers/ide/ide-cd.c.orig	Mon May  5 01:53:14 2003
> +++ ./drivers/ide/ide-cd.c	Mon May 26 17:06:09 2003
> @@ -667,7 +667,8 @@
>  		void *sense = &info->sense_data;
>  		
>  		if (failed && failed->sense)
> -			sense = failed->sense;
> +			sense = failed->sense,
> +			failed->sense_len=rq->sense_len;
>  
>  		cdrom_analyze_sense_data(drive, failed, sense);
>  	}

Looks good, applied.

> @@ -723,7 +724,7 @@
>  		 * scsi status byte
>  		 */
>  		if ((rq->flags & REQ_BLOCK_PC) && !rq->errors)
> -			rq->errors = CHECK_CONDITION;
> +			rq->errors = CHECK_CONDITION<<1;
>  
>  		/* Check for tray open. */
>  		if (sense_key == NOT_READY) {

Ditto, but lets use SAM_CHECK_CONDITION instead, I hate this bit
shifting crap.

> @@ -1471,8 +1472,13 @@
>  		/* Keep count of how much data we've moved. */
>  		rq->data += thislen;
>  		rq->data_len -= thislen;
> +#if 0
>  		if (rq->cmd[0] == GPCMD_REQUEST_SENSE)
>  			rq->sense_len++;
> +#else
> +		if (rq->flags & REQ_SENSE)
> +			rq->sense_len+=thislen;
> +#endif
>  	} else {
>  confused:
>  		printk ("%s: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive "

Hmm confused, care to expand?

> @@ -1609,7 +1615,7 @@
>  
>  static void post_transform_command(struct request *req)
>  {
> -	char *ibuf = req->buffer;
> +	char *ibuf = req->data?req->data:req->buffer;
>  	u8 *c = req->cmd;
>  
>  	if (!blk_pc_request(req))

That is bad, though. I've changed this to just bail on !ibuf.

-- 
Jens Axboe