From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: [PATCH]: mpt2sas crashes on shutdown Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:24:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4EFA0D53.9000605@interlog.com> References: <20111226.145920.1088076837634135764.davem@davemloft.net> <4565AEA676113A449269C2F3A549520FAC5B1C55@cosmail03.lsi.com> <20111227.130550.165386147383560860.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: dgilbert@interlog.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.infotech.no ([82.134.31.41]:38419 "EHLO smtp.infotech.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751018Ab1L0SY3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:24:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20111227.130550.165386147383560860.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Cc: Eric.Moore@lsi.com, stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com On 11-12-27 01:05 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: "Moore, Eric" > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:09:28 -0700 > >> David - The backup and restoring of the MSIX vector capabilities registers across diagnostic reset was only needed for our pre-production cards (A0 parts). It was a workaround for some hardware errata. This is not needed anymore as there was a fix addressed before those controllers when to production, so I finally removed this workaround in the driver during phase 10 in the LSI in-house drivers, which was about 10 months ago. Attached is my commit for the in-house drivers. You should be able to remove the save_msix_table and restore_msix_table routines as I did. > > I don't care how it is fixed, I only care that a fix makes it's way into -stable. > > You LSI guys seem to ignore the -stable series and submit _ZERO_ bug > fixes for your driver there, leaving it to people like me suffering > from the bugs to submit the fixes for you. > > Therefore it is kind of out of place for you to suggest a specific way you want > the bug fixed, because obviously you guys don't care about backporting bug > fixes to -stable in the first place. > > With that in mind, why not leave the decision to people who actually > care, have actually tested the fix, and bothered to submit it to -stable? ... and goodwill to all.