Re: Do we still need the scsi IPR driver ?

John Garry
2022-09-20T13:08:11Z

On 21/06/2022 23:12, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>> We still need it around for now. IBM still sells these adapters
>>> and they can still be ordered even on our latest Power 10 systems.
>> At one point I did look into modifying ipr to use an ->error_handler.
>> I recall I ran into some issues that resulted in this getting put
>> on the shelf, but its been a while. I'll go dig that code up and
>> see what it looks like.
> Thanks. It would be really great if you can convert to using
> error_handler. This is really the last ata/libsas driver that does not use
> this.
>

Hi Brian,

I am wondering if there is any update here?

As you may have seen in [0], I think that we need to make progress on
this topic first to keep the solution there a bit simpler.

[0]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/1663669630-21333-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com/T/#mf890cb4f1627112652831524dca62cbde4a0a637

Thanks,
John