Re: kern/38299: bioctl problem with arcmsr

[Juan RP <xtraeme%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38299; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Juan RP <xtraeme%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/38299: bioctl problem with arcmsr
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:54:11 +0200

 On Thu,  3 Apr 2008 13:50:01 +0000 (UTC)
 Hiroyuki Bessho <bsh%grotto.jp@localhost> wrote:
 
 >    I checked source codes in Areca's CD-ROM. According to the header
 >  file "arclib.h", device status is defined as:
 >  
 >      bit7:  initialized
 >      bit6:  available
 >      bit5:  reserved for hot spare
 >      bit4:  failed
 >      bit3:  attached
 >      bit1:  pass through
 >    
 >    So, bit0 is something we can ignore?
 
 Yeah, probably.
  
 >    BTW,  in arc_bio_disk_filldate() of NetBSD's driver,
 >        htole32(diskinfo->device_state)
 >  seems wrong to me, because device_state is uint8_t.
 
 Ah yes, thanks for the catch.
 
 I'll change the driver with those changes.
 
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