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

[Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>]

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You should use `git send-email` to send the patch to all of the people
listed by get_maintainer.pl:

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.

On 02/12/2014 11:43 AM, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Sreekanth,
> 
> There hasn't been much recent activity in
> drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c, so I wasn't sure who could best
> review the patch.
> 
> Dan Williams added sas_rphy_unlink() back in 2011, perhaps he can
> remember why sas_bsg_remove wasn't performed there?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Joe
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:43:58 +0000
> "Reddy, Sreekanth" <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>> May I known the status of this patch having subject
>> "[PATCH] scsi_transport_sas: move bsg destructor into sas_rphy_remove".
>>
>> I need the status of this patch as I am also observing the same WARNING call trace on latest 3.14.0-rc2+ kernel whenever we unload the mpt2sas/mpt3sas driver or whenever we unplug the drive attached to the HBA.
>> But after applying yours patch, these WARNING call trace is not observed.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sreekanth
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Joe Lawrence [mailto:joe.lawrence@stratus.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 7:54 PM
>>> To: prometheanfire@gentoo.org
>>> Cc: Nandigama, Nagalakshmi; Reddy, Sreekanth; Support; DL-MPT Fusion
>>> Linux; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; JBottomley@parallels.com; linux-
>>> kernel@vger.kernel.org; kernel@gentoo.org
>>> Subject: Re: mpt2sas driver barfs when force removing a drive on 3.13.1
>>>
>>> On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 20:49:39 -0600
>>> Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I decided to pull a drive while it was in use out of laziness (it was
>>>> open via luks, but not in actual use).  Got a fun trace as a result.
>>>> Just thought you'd like to know :D
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Matthew,
>>>
>>> The first trace looks a lot like what I see on mpt2sas driver removal [1].  I
>>> posted a suggested fix back in Dec [2], which you might try, however it is not
>>> reviewed at this point.
>>>
>>> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/86237
>>> [2] https://github.com/joe-
>>> lawrence/linux/compare/scsi_transport_sas_sysfs_warning.patch
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> -- Joe
>>
> 



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