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

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Date:	Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:40:46 +0200
From:	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
CC:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, 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 07/31/2013 07:51 PM, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 05:15 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>>> "Bernd" == Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm> writes:
>>
>> Bernd,
>>
>>>> Product revision level: R001 
>>
>> It's clearly not verbatim passthrough...
>>
>> Bernd> Besides the firmware, the difference might be that I'm exporting
>> Bernd> single disks without any areca-raidset in between.  I can try to
>> Bernd> confirm that tomorrow, I just need the system as it is till
>> Bernd> tomorrow noon.
>>
>> That would be a great data point. I don't have any Areca boards.
>>
> 
> Just tested it, areca-raidset does not make a difference, but the
> firmware version does. After downgrading to 1.46 I have the same issue.
> 
> It is getting a bit late for me, but as this a pure development system,
> which is also booted over nfs, I can investigate it tomorrow.
> 


I couldn't resist and captured a few logs, see attachment. Is
0xffff88007feff180 the VPD inquiry? Can't we just cancel that command if
submitting it fails and then turn off VPD inquiry for this controller?

View attachment "kern.log" of type "text/x-log" (123362 bytes)