Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Fix secure erase premature termination (v4)

[Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey2805@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Andrey" == Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey2805@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Andrey,
>
> Andrey> Problem: This is a work around for a bug with LSI Fusion MPT
> Andrey> SAS2 when pefroming secure erase. Due to the very long time the
> Andrey> operation takes commands issued during the erase will time out
> Andrey> and will trigger execution of abort hook. Even though the abort
> Andrey> hook is called for the specific command which timed out this
> Andrey> leads to entire device halt (scsi_state terminated) and
> Andrey> premature termination of the secured erase.
>
> This patch didn't apply to the SCSI tree. I merged it into
> 4.9/scsi-fixes by hand.

Sorry about that and thanks. Next time i will work of off latest tree.
Regarding older code where there is still a separate mpt2sas driver, should
a separate patch to be done or this fix will be ported there ?

Thanks,
Andrey
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> Thanks!
> Martin
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