From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hare@suse.de, Bo.Yang@lsi.com,
Sumant.Patro@lsi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 02/17] Dell CERC support for megaraid_mbox
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:13:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206897220.4224.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803282148.m2SLmXhQ012219@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 14:48 -0700, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
>
> Newer Dell CERC firmware (>= 6.62) implement a random deletion handling
> compatible with the legacy megaraid driver. The legacy handling shifted
> the target ID by 0x80 only for I/O commands (READ/WRITE/etc), whereas
> megaraid_mbox shifts the target ID always if random deletion is supported.
> The resulted in megaraid_mbox sending an INQUIRY to the wrong channel, and
> not finding any devices, obviously.
>
> So we disable the random deletion support if the offending firmware is
> found.
>
> Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6695
Bo,
You said you'd review this patch and give feedback "soon" twenty five
days ago (5 March). My patience finally ran out on this one; you have
three days (that's until midnight CST on 2 April) to provide an ack or a
replacement patch for this otherwise I'll apply it anyway.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-30 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 21:48 [patch 02/17] Dell CERC support for megaraid_mbox akpm
2008-03-30 17:13 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2008-03-31 14:33 ` Yang, Bo
2008-04-02 21:48 ` Yang, Bo
2008-04-07 12:44 ` Hannes Reinecke
2008-04-14 15:56 ` Yang, Bo
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