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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "scsi: mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature
 termination"
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 08:11:05 -0800
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On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 10:19 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So there's a new mpt3sas SCSI driver boot regression, introduced in 
> this merge window, which made one of my servers unbootable.

We're not reverting a fix that would cause regressions for others. 
 However, The fix was manifestly wrong, so does this fix of the fix
work for you:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=148329237807604

It's been languishing a bit because no-one seemed to care enough to
test or review it.  IOf you can add a tested by, that will give the two
we need to push it.

James