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Message-ID: <49458D9C.5080906@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:50:04 +0100
From: Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@....de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC: greg@...ah.com
Subject: PATCH: mvsas: increase port type detection delay to suit Seagate's
15k6 drive ST3450856SS 0003
Hi Greg,
I hope you don't mind following your suggestion:
> Also, please cc: the stable developers if you want them to pay attention
> to messages like this.
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: Re: PATCH: mvsas: increase port type detection delay to
suit Seagate's 15k6 drive ST3450856SS 0003
Datum: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:23:45 +0100
Von: Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@....de>
An: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
CC: Ke Wei <kewei@...vell.com>, Jeff Garzik
<jgarzik@...hat.com>, James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Referenzen: <493BC76F.3060105@....de> <49405137.9000902@....de>
Hi,
I wonder why no one has dropped me a line so far. I hope you
don't mind CCing you directly. I found your email addresses on
mailing list entries regarding mvsas. I attach the little patch
again for ease of use.
Reinhard Nissl schrieb:
> I increased the delay step by step until loading of mvsas
> reliably detected the drive 200 times in sequence. A much better
> approach would be to monitor the hardware for some flag which
> indicates that port detection has finished, but I do not have any
> hardware documentation.
>
> BTW: patch is against
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git
>
> Signed-off-by: Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@....de>
Bye.
--
Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl
mailto:rnissl@....de
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