RE: megaraid_sas: "FW in FAULT state!!", how to get more debug output? [BKO63661]

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Le Friday 10 July 2015 à 19:46 +0530, Kashyap Desai a écrit :
> >
> > I am about to commit the patch that was successfully tested by the
> > customer on
> > SLES 12, but I'm a bit confused. The upstream patch you referred to is:
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git/commit/?h=for-
> > next&id=6431f5d7c6025f8b007af06ea090de308f7e6881
> > [SCSI] megaraid_sas: megaraid_sas driver init fails in kdump kernel
> >
> > But the patch I used is the one you sent by e-mail on May 28th. It is
> > completely
> > different!
> >
> > So what am I supposed to do? Use the patch you sent (and that was tested
> > by the customer) for SLES 11 SP3 and SLES 12? Or was it just for testing
> > and the proper way of fixing the problem would be to backport the
>>upstream commit?
> 
> You can use that patch as valid candidate for upstream submission. Some of
> the MR maintainer (Sumit Saxena) will send that patch. We are just
> organizing other patch series.
> Since SLES already ported patch without commit id, we are fine. I am just
> giving reference that patch which send via email will be send to upstream
> very soon along with other patch set.

OK, thanks for the clarification. The patched SLES 11 SP3 kernel is
currently under testing by the customer, apparently it doesn't work but
I don't have all the details yet. Maybe some more patches need to be
backported because that kernel is older.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support