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

Dan Williams
2014-02-12T19:25:18Z

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...