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<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Hi all,</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I am attaching a new patch that includes the following changes:</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">1. In nvmeinit.c and nvmestat.c</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">- When Metadata is enabled, the associated drive is not visible to the host to avoid system crash when processing Read/Write commands.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">2. In nvmesnti.c, nvmesnti.h and nvmesntitypes.h</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">- Added handling zero length in Read/Write commands except Read6/Write6.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">- Added handling buffer over-run/under-run for Read/Write commands.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">- Fixed Read6/Write6 zero length bug in CDB.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">3. In nvmestd.c</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">- Fixed system crash issue when LunExtensionTable is not allocated and requests hit NVMeBuildIo. It happens when driver is not initialized successfully.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Please review the changes and provide feedbacks if you have any. If nobody disagrees with the changes, I will remind Ray to merge them in two weeks.</font></span></div>
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<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Thanks,</font></span></div>
<div><span class="832105118-15032013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Alex</font></span></div>
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