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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:10:36 -0400
From:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:	dgilbert@...erlog.com
Cc:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@...tmail.fm>,
	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

>>>>> "Doug" == Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.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
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