Re: mpt2sas driver barfs when force removing a drive on 3.13.1

Matthew Thode
2014-02-12T19:46:54Z

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On 02/12/2014 01:41 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 02:25 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> You should use `git send-email` to send the patch to all of the people
>>> listed by get_maintainer.pl:
>>
>> I see nothing wrong with the patch Joe originally submitted:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=138609455422179&w=2
>>
>>>
>>> richard@desktop ~/devel/linux $ scripts/get_maintainer.pl --file
>>> drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
>>> "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com> (maintainer:SCSI
>>> SUBSYSTEM)
>>> linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org (open list:SCSI SUBSYSTEM)
>>> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
>>>
>>> If I see that James E.J. Bottomley is already on CC for this discussion,
>>> but my recent (and first) experience submitting a patch for another
>>> subsystem was that they are ignored unless this strict procedure is
>>> followed.
>>>
>>> If the maintainer does not respond within a month after doing this, I
>>> suggest informing Linus Torvalds via email that the subsystem maintainer
>>> is non-responsive.
>>>
>>
>> Just re-ping James, he'll get to it...
>>
>
> That was intended as generic advice. Sadly, I don't have a copy of the
> email headers for the original patch submission, so I can't inspect it.
>
> That being said, I am receiving these emails because I suggested Matthew
> to include the Gentoo kernel team alias on the CC list when I advised
> him to send this report upstream.
>
I haven't had a chance to test this yet (I'm haven't rebooted yet). I
do intend to let you know when I do reboot (probably tonight, the last
resliver is done 'soon').

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