linux-kernel - Re: [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup / early userspace transition

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:14:44 +0200
From:	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>
To:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
CC:	Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	nick.cheng@...ca.com.tw, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup
 / early userspace transition

On 07/30/2013 02:56 AM, Nix wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2013, Douglas Gilbert outgrape:
>
>> Please supply the information that Martin Petersen asked
>> for.
>
> Did it in private IRC (the advantage of working for the same division of
> the same company!)
>
> I didn't realise the original fix was actually implemented to allow
> Bernd, with a different Areca controller, to boot... obviously, in that
> situation, reversion is wrong, since that would just replace one won't-
> boot situation with another.

Unless there is very simple fix the commit should reverted, imho. It 
would better then to remove write-same support from the md-layer.


Cheers,
Bernd
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