From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomas Henzl Subject: Re: AW: ARCMSR - Notify sense data report - Lost patch? Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 15:47:56 +0100 Message-ID: <5473451C.1040400@redhat.com> References: <12EF8D94C6F8734FB2FF37B9FBEDD1735F8C1FC8@EXCHANGE.collogia.de>,<20141124132331.GA4179@infradead.org> <12EF8D94C6F8734FB2FF37B9FBEDD1735F8C20B0@EXCHANGE.collogia.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:36858 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754023AbaKXOs0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:48:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <12EF8D94C6F8734FB2FF37B9FBEDD1735F8C20B0@EXCHANGE.collogia.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Markus Stockhausen , Christoph Hellwig Cc: "ching2048@areca.com.tw" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" On 11/24/2014 02:45 PM, Markus Stockhausen wrote: >> Von: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org [linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org]" im Auftrag von "Christoph Hellwig [hch@infradead.org] >> Gesendet: Montag, 24. November 2014 14:23 >> An: Markus Stockhausen >> Cc: ching2048@areca.com.tw; thenzl@redhat.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org >> Betreff: Re: ARCMSR - Notify sense data report - Lost patch? >> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:47:02AM +0000, Markus Stockhausen wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> sorting out some diffs between the official Arcea driver and >>> the newest 3.18 patches I found a patch that might got lost: >>> >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/20/956 >>> >>> Could you check if that is desired? >> Looks sensible to me. Did you test it? > No not really, as I don't know how. We had a controller crash the last > week and I was wondering about the differences between vendor and > upstream version. So I basically did some code comparison between > the two source. Besides a lot of layout differences and other hacks > this was one of the first things I noticed and wondered what difference > those flags could make. Especially regarding stability. > > Hopefully Ching and/or Tomas know better as they seem repsonsible > for the rest of the 3.18 arcmsr patches. I don't know why Ching hasn't re-posted this in later series. The Areca in-house driver works stable? > > Markus