Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] aacraid: Host adapter Adaptec 6405 constantly resets under high io load

James Hilliard
2022-10-26T20:10:40Z

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 2:03 PM Konstantin Khorenko
<khorenko@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>
> On 10.10.2022 14:31, James Hilliard wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:41 PM Martin K. Petersen
> > <martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Christian,
> >>
> >>> The faulty patch (Commit: 395e5df79a9588abf) from 2017 should be
> >>> repaired with Konstantin Khorenko (1):
> >>>
> >>> scsi: aacraid: resurrect correct arc ctrl checks for Series-6
> >>
> >> It would be great to get this patch resubmitted by Konstantin and acked
> >> by Microchip.

Can we merge this as is since microchip does not appear to be maintaining
this driver any more or responding?

> >
> > Does the patch need to be rebased?
>
> James, i have just checked - the old patch (v3) applies cleanly onto latest master branch.
>
> > Based on this it looks like someone at microchip may have already reviewed:
> > v3 changes:
> > * introduced another wrapper to check for devices except for Series 6
> > controllers upon request from Sagar Biradar (Microchip)
>
> Well, back in the year 2019 i've created a bug in RedHat bugzilla
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724077
> (the bug is private, this is default for Redhat bugs)
>
> In this bug Sagar Biradar (with the email @microchip.com) suggested me to rework the patch - i've done
> that and sent the v3.
>
> And nothing happened after that, but in a ~year (2020-06-19) the bug was closed with the resolution
> NOTABUG and a comment that S6 users will find the patch useful.
>
> i suppose S6 is so old that RedHat just does not have customers using it and Microchip company itself
> is also not that interested in handling so old hardware issues.
>
> Sorry, i was unable to get a final ack from Microchip,
> i've written direct emails to the addresses which is found in the internet, tried to connect via
> linkedin, no luck.
>
> --
> Konstantin Khorenko