linux-kernel - Re: bisected regression: qla2xxx endianness on sparc64

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Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2014 15:09:47 -0500
From:	Chad Dupuis <chad.dupuis@...gic.com>
To:	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
CC:	Joe Carnuccio <joe.carnuccio@...gic.com>,
	Saurav Kashyap <saurav.kashyap@...gic.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, <qla2xxx-upstream@...gic.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	<linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bisected regression: qla2xxx endianness on sparc64


On Sun, 2 Nov 2014, Meelis Roos wrote:

> Between 3.17 and 3.18-rc2, qla2xxx is broken on my sparc64 machines. It fails 
> to boot (hangs in firmware rings init).
>
> This is the result of bisect:
>
> 98aee70d19a7e3203649fa2078464e4f402a0ad8 is the first bad commit
> commit 98aee70d19a7e3203649fa2078464e4f402a0ad8
> Author: Joe Carnuccio <joe.carnuccio@...gic.com>
> Date:   Thu Sep 25 05:16:38 2014 -0400
>
>    qla2xxx: Add endianizer to max_payload_size modifier.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Joe Carnuccio <joe.carnuccio@...gic.com>
>    Signed-off-by: Saurav Kashyap <saurav.kashyap@...gic.com>
>    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>
> :040000 040000 041c1a26dc2a7988900acc982e3bd65d3cf7e751 
> 9700d09c3226fc352d44352f22b84f1be632d324 M  s
>
> This may not be the only problem - when bisecting, I also came to commits 
> that got past this step but hang after about 165 seconds of uptime while 
> running userspace startup scripts. But let that be another issue at the 
> moment.
>

We should revert that change. What were some of the other failures you 
were seeing?
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