From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Vasquez Subject: Re: IP over FC and qlogic workarounds in fusion Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:16:18 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1094530577.29434.7.camel@praka> References: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5704F631BE@exa-atlanta> <20040906101349.GA17669@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from avexch02.qlogic.com ([198.70.193.200]:7265 "EHLO avexch01.qlogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267545AbUIGESE (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:18:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040906101349.GA17669@lst.de> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Moore, Eric Dean" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Shirron, Stephen" On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 03:13, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 06:29:47PM -0400, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > > Here is feedback from Stephen Shirron, co-worker here > > at LSI Logic: > > > > To my knowledge QLogic has never even acknowledged that > > they had a bug. In my opinion it is not > > safe to remove this code. We do have versions of the FC > > firmware that work around this QLogic bug, but it's hard > > to know if the entire field is populated. It would not > > be good to introduce a regression that decreases our > > interoperability. > > Andrew, could you please try to to find the right people at Qlogic > to ACK or even better fix this? > I'm not sure who Stephen originally worked with at QLogic, but yes, this is a known problem (finally managed to track down several firmware engineers) and unfortunately 'will not be addressed' in the future. You'll also note that FC-IP support has effectively been extricated from the 8.x series driver. Regards, Andrew Vasquez