Re: Do we still need the scsi IPR driver ?

Hannes Reinecke
2022-06-20T07:35:56Z

On 6/20/22 06:48, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>
> Polling people here: Do we still need the scsi IPR driver for IBM Power
> Linux RAID adapters (IBM iSeries: 5702, 5703, 2780, 5709, 570A, 570B
> adapters) ?
>
> The reason I am asking is because this driver is the *only* libsas/ata
> driver that does not define a ->error_handler port operation. If this
> driver is removed, or if it is modified to use a ->error_handler operation
> to handle failed commands, then a lot of code simplification can be done
> in libata, which I am trying to do to facilitate the processing of some
> special error completion for commands using a command duration limit.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
We certainly don't, I've looked through our pool for any machines and
draw a blank.
And I'm reasonably certain that none of our customers is using one of
them old machines, neither; IBM tends to be very particular about
obsolete machines :-)

Cheers,

Hannes
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