From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley 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 Message-ID: <1230740055.3408.88.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <00cd01c96a1b$240d6a50$6602a8c0@bui.materna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:54431 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755838AbYLaQOS (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:14:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <00cd01c96a1b$240d6a50$6602a8c0@bui.materna.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Roland Cc: linux-scsi , kewei@marvell.com, rnissl@gmx.de 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