From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Roland <devzero@web.de>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
kewei@marvell.com, rnissl@gmx.de
Subject: Re: PATCH: mvsas: increase port type detection delay to suit Seagate's 15k6 drive ST3450856SS 0003
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:14:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1230740055.3408.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00cd01c96a1b$240d6a50$6602a8c0@bui.materna.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-30 1:08 PATCH: mvsas: increase port type detection delay to suit Seagate's 15k6 drive ST3450856SS 0003 Roland
2008-12-31 16:14 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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2008-12-07 12:54 [Fwd: mvsas determines most often an incorrect phy addr of 0 while attaching phy to port (Was: ERROR: Unidentified device type 0)] Reinhard Nissl
2008-12-10 23:31 ` PATCH: mvsas: increase port type detection delay to suit Seagate's 10k6 drive ST3450856SS 0003 Reinhard Nissl
2008-12-12 20:23 ` PATCH: mvsas: increase port type detection delay to suit Seagate's 15k6 " Reinhard Nissl
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