RE: aacraid controller hangs if kernel uses non-default ASPM policy

Mark Salyzyn
2011-11-11T14:35:13Z

Aacraid is *not* out of production, there is just a long legacy of EOL'd
cards. PMC is continued developing and extending the hardware (Series 6
and beyond)

Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn

-----Original Message-----
From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com]
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 9:15 AM
To: Matthew Garrett
Cc: Vasily Averin; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Adaptec OEM Raid
Solutions; Mark Salyzyn
Subject: Re: aacraid controller hangs if kernel uses non-default ASPM
policy

On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 13:09 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Yeah, sorry about that, it's something that was on my list to deal
with.
> Disabling ASPM entirely on aacraid really isn't a desirable outcome -
> it'd be significantly better to identify which chipsets are broken
with
> it enabled and then only disable those.

Well, aacraid is out of production, I believe, so lets fix the hang
first (with a global disable) and we can gradually re-enable if we get
experimenters who try it with particular HW.

James