From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] hisi_sas: v2 hw SoC bug workarounds Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:02:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1491830521-21437-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1491830521-21437-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com> (John Garry's message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:21:55 +0800") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Garry Cc: jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, john.garry2@mail.dcu.ie, linuxarm@huawei.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhangfei.gao@linaro.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org John, > This patchset introduces some v2 hw bug workarounds. Mostly they are > related to SATA devices, but there is also a workaround for a scenario > when internal abort command may timeout. > > The general rule for implementing workarounds was to do it in the hw > layer, as the next hw revision should not include these bugs, so it is > better not pollute the driver main layer with workarounds > > This patchset also includes 2 other patches, one for a possible NULL > pointer deference and another for resetting the controller for fatal > AXI/ECC errors. Applied to 4.12/scsi-queue. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering