Re: PATCH: mvsas: increase port type detection delay to suit Seagate's 15k6 drive ST3450856SS 0003

James Bottomley
2008-12-31T16:14:18Z

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 02:08 +0100, Roland wrote:
> as this driver is relatively new, is it already stable enough for production
> use ?

It passes my testing, including some nicely error prone expander
configurations ... however, I assume you'll put it through its
qualification paces.

> i thought about buying a mobo with marvell sas controller.
>
> is it planned to merge this patch, as it is fixing a problem or must this
> problems being workarounded in userspace ?

Ideally, I'd like marvell to comment on this since just increasing the
timer looks like it's hiding some type of race in the driver ...
however, since it's been around for nearly a month now with no response
and it looks relatively harmless, I'll put it in.

> here`s some more with that problem:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474482
> http://forumubuntusoftware.info/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=2454

James