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From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Alexey Bogoslavsky <Alexey.Bogoslavsky@wdc.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Helgas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>,
	Rajat Khandelwal <rajat.khandelwal@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] PCI/AER: Ignore correctable error reports for SN730 WD SSD
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:00:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230428220054.GA369990@bhelgaas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR04MB64739F4EE26DB3E95BA8D1788B679@DM6PR04MB6473.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 11:27:43AM +0000, Alexey Bogoslavsky wrote:
> Hello Bjorn,
> 
> Sorry for not addressing your questions earlier. As you may have
> heard, WD experienced a hacking attack which left us with no access
> to the company e-mail for weeks.

So sorry to hear that, that is incredibly disruptive.

> As for the patch, no FW change was an option as the product causing
> the issue was basically at the end of life. So, I prepared a
> workaround that took into account all the comments from the
> community.

Makes sense and is a very common situation.  In general we try to
avoid "fixing" issues by requiring a firmware update because even if
such an update is available, most users will not have it.

I think the hope was that a kernel quirk could tweak something on the
device to make it stop reporting these errors.

> Yet, at this point it seems like the company has lost interest in
> promoting this patch altogether.  So we could just drop it. Please
> let me know if there's anything I need to do to request that
> officially.

No worries, you don't need to do anything.  If you can point me to any
users or bug reports, maybe I can tidy this up and merge it.  Those
users are still being annoyed by the error spam, and that seems
pointless.

Bjorn

      reply	other threads:[~2023-04-28 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <BY5PR04MB704131DBB47254C9F1FF12B38B409@BY5PR04MB7041.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
2023-01-16 18:32 ` [PATCH 1/1] PCI/AER: Ignore correctable error reports for SN730 WD SSD Alexey Bogoslavsky
2023-01-17  7:14   ` 'hch@lst.de'
2023-01-17 13:20     ` Alexey Bogoslavsky
2023-01-17 14:22       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-01-17 18:06         ` Alexey Bogoslavsky
2023-01-17 15:54   ` Keith Busch
2023-01-17 18:15     ` Alexey Bogoslavsky
2023-04-11 22:15       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2023-04-24 11:27         ` Alexey Bogoslavsky
2023-04-28 22:00           ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]

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