Re: aacraid: kernel: AAC: Host adapter dead -1 (bisected)

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 17 of January 2017, Dave Carroll wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > There is a bug with handling of adaptec raid cards (in my case it is
> > Adaptec 3405) where kernel logs hundreds of "AAC: Host adapter dead -1"
> > messages.
> > 
> > Bug was reported previously on lkml but there was no progres in solving
> > it.
> > 
> > There is also bugzilla entry:
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151661
> > 
> > I've bisected that to commit bellow and indeed, reverting it from kernel
> > 4.9.3 makes messages go away.
> > 
> > Could anyone at microsemi look at this regression?
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> Hi Arkadiusz,
> 
> Thanks for your effort in determining the cause of the issue. It makes
> sense now that the patch should have been included in controller specific
> code, rather than common code.
> 
> I will prepare a patch for this, and if you are willing to test it, that
> would be great!

Great!

I have dedicated machine for testing this, so yes - I'll test.

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