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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: dgilbert@interlog.com
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	nick.cheng@areca.com.tw, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup / early userspace transition
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:10:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq14nbbifv7.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F708A4.9090207@interlog.com> (Douglas Gilbert's message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:28:20 -0400")

>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> writes:

Doug> I just examined a more recent Areca SAS RAID controller and would
Doug> describe it as the SCSI device from hell. One solution to this
Doug> problem is to modify the arcmsr driver so it returns a more
Doug> consistent set of lies to the management SCSI commands that Martin
Doug> is asking about.

Yeah. This is quite the challenge given that the product id is
user-specified and product revision hardcoded. I can match on "Areca" in
the vendor id and that's about it :(

My current approach is to tweak the driver so that I can set
skip_vpd_pages for the ATA models. Under the assumption that the SAS
controllers actually feature the ATA Information VPD...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <51F667C2.4020801@fastmail.fm>
     [not found]   ` <87mwp5frdl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
     [not found]     ` <51F67959.2060803@fastmail.fm>
2013-07-29 21:09       ` [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup / early userspace transition Nix
2013-07-29 23:34         ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-07-30 18:09           ` Bernd Schubert
2013-07-31  0:07             ` Nick Alcock
2013-07-31  3:19               ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-07-31  3:15             ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-07-31 17:51               ` Bernd Schubert
2013-07-31 18:40                 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-08-01 14:34                   ` [PATCH] scsi disk: Use its own buffer for the vpd request Bernd Schubert
2013-08-01 14:37                     ` Bernd Schubert
2013-08-02  3:00                     ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-08-26 20:15                       ` Bernd Schubert
2013-08-02 23:46                     ` Nick Alcock
2013-08-03 11:17                     ` Nick Alcock
2013-08-30 10:01                     ` Nix
2013-08-31  1:53                       ` Greg KH
2013-08-31 19:48                         ` Nix
2013-09-01 18:40                           ` Bernd Schubert
2013-09-20 22:51                             ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-07-30  0:28         ` [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup / early userspace transition Douglas Gilbert
2013-07-30  0:56           ` Nix
2013-07-30 18:14             ` Bernd Schubert
2013-07-30 21:20               ` Nix
2013-08-01 14:55                 ` Bernd Schubert
2013-08-01 16:04                   ` Nix
2013-08-01 16:21                     ` Bernd Schubert
2013-07-31  3:10           ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]

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