[PATCH] mpt2sas : Description patch.

[PATCH] mpt2sas : Description patch.

[Kashyap, Desai]

MPT2SAS driver updates.
Please consider it for next Merge window.
Before applying this patchset previous patch submission for mpt2sas 05.100.00.00
need to be applied.

[PATCH 01/05] mpt2sas: sanity added to remove duplicate port from topology
[PATCH 02/05] mpt2sas: Send default descriptor for RAID pass through in mpt2ctl
[PATCH 03/05] mpt2sas: Added support for PCIe Advanced Error Recovery.
[PATCH 04/05] mpt2sas: Check for NULL pointer before free_pages is added.
[PATCH 05/05] mpt2sas: Upgrade version 05.100.00.01

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
---

[PATCH] mpt2sas: Description Patch

[nagalakshmi.nandigama]

Please consider this patch set for next kernel release.

Signed-off-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com>
---
[PATCH 01/10] mpt2sas : MPI next revision header update.
[PATCH 02/10] mpt2sas : New feature Fast Load Support.
[PATCH 03/10] mpt2sas : Fix for system hang when discovery in progress.
[PATCH 04/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue - Failure message displayed during diag reset.
[PATCH 05/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue - Drives not getting properly deleted if sas cable is removed 
while host reset is active.
[PATCH 06/10] mpt2sas : Fix for dead lock occurring between host_lock and sas_device_lock.
[PATCH 07/10] mpt2sas : Fix for deadlock between hot plug worker threads and host reset context.
[PATCH 08/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue Port Reset taking long time(around 5 mins) to complete
while issued during creating a volume.
[PATCH 09/10] mpt2sas : Fix for Panic when inactive volume is tried deleting.
[PATCH 10/10] mpt2sas : Bump driver version to 10.100.00.00

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Description Patch

[James Bottomley]

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 10:19 +0530, nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com wrote:
> Please consider this patch set for next kernel release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com>
> ---
> [PATCH 01/10] mpt2sas : MPI next revision header update.
> [PATCH 02/10] mpt2sas : New feature Fast Load Support.
> [PATCH 03/10] mpt2sas : Fix for system hang when discovery in progress.
> [PATCH 04/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue - Failure message displayed during diag reset.
> [PATCH 05/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue - Drives not getting properly deleted if sas cable is removed 
> while host reset is active.
> [PATCH 06/10] mpt2sas : Fix for dead lock occurring between host_lock and sas_device_lock.
> [PATCH 07/10] mpt2sas : Fix for deadlock between hot plug worker threads and host reset context.
> [PATCH 08/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue Port Reset taking long time(around 5 mins) to complete
> while issued during creating a volume.
> [PATCH 09/10] mpt2sas : Fix for Panic when inactive volume is tried deleting.
> [PATCH 10/10] mpt2sas : Bump driver version to 10.100.00.00

None of the patch numbers made it to the actual patches.  This makes for
an incredibly annoying cross reference job trying to apply them, could
you just resend with the numbering in the Subject of each patch.

Also several of the ones labelled fix look like they're candidates for
backport to stable, are they?

James

RE: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Description Patch

[Nandigama, Nagalakshmi]

James,
I resent all the patches with numbers added to each patch. Also the patches which need to be back ported to stable, I put Cc: stable@kernel.org in the patch and resent.

Regards,
Nagalakshmi


-----Original Message-----
From: James Bottomley [mailto:jbottomley@parallels.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 9:30 PM
To: Nandigama, Nagalakshmi
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Desai, Kashyap; Prakash, Sathya; Moore, Eric
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Description Patch

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 10:19 +0530, nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com wrote:
> Please consider this patch set for next kernel release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com>
> ---
> [PATCH 01/10] mpt2sas : MPI next revision header update.
> [PATCH 02/10] mpt2sas : New feature Fast Load Support.
> [PATCH 03/10] mpt2sas : Fix for system hang when discovery in progress.
> [PATCH 04/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue - Failure message displayed during diag reset.
> [PATCH 05/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue - Drives not getting properly deleted if sas cable is removed 
> while host reset is active.
> [PATCH 06/10] mpt2sas : Fix for dead lock occurring between host_lock and sas_device_lock.
> [PATCH 07/10] mpt2sas : Fix for deadlock between hot plug worker threads and host reset context.
> [PATCH 08/10] mpt2sas : Fix for issue Port Reset taking long time(around 5 mins) to complete
> while issued during creating a volume.
> [PATCH 09/10] mpt2sas : Fix for Panic when inactive volume is tried deleting.
> [PATCH 10/10] mpt2sas : Bump driver version to 10.100.00.00

None of the patch numbers made it to the actual patches.  This makes for
an incredibly annoying cross reference job trying to apply them, could
you just resend with the numbering in the Subject of each patch.

Also several of the ones labelled fix look like they're candidates for
backport to stable, are they?

James