RE: [BISECTED] QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel not working on 2.6.35.y

Madhu Iyengar
2011-04-20T02:05:22Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@suse.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:04 AM
> To: Andi Kleen
> Cc: Ozan Çağlayan; stable; Giridhar Malavali; linux-kernel; Andrew Vasquez
> Subject: Re: [BISECTED] QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel not
> working on 2.6.35.y
>
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:58 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > From 2f0f3f4f06f7cfadebf58b70bd9e7f71d8fd96e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: Madhuranath Iyengar <madhuranath.iyengar@qlogic.com>
> > > Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:28:24 +0500
> > > Subject: [PATCH 021/107] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Appropriately log FCP
> > > priority data messages
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@qlogic.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
> > >
> > >
> > > -------
> > >
> > > So I think at least the first commit that I've mentioned should be
> > > queued for the next 2.6.35.y to fix this issue.
> >
> > Thanks for the bisection.
> >
> > Can I get an ack for that from the driver or SCSI maintainer or
> > patch author first please?
> > I don't understand the driver well enough to make a call myself.
>
> I'll defer to qlogic ... it looks like a driver enhancement to add FCP
> prioritised queues ... but it would be a bug fix, I suppose, if the card
> can't actually operate without this.
>
> James
>
>

For the qla2xxx patch above, here's the ack:
Acked-by: Madhuranath Iyengar <Madhu.Iyengar@qlogic.com>

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