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

Richard Yao
2014-02-12T19:41:42Z

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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.

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