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Message-ID: <yq1sftzwstk.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:03:03 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
Cc:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
        Khalid Aziz <khalid@...ehiking.org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] scsi: Set allocation length to 255 for ATA
 Information VPD page


Maciej,

> I have tried your tree and it does not clobber the HBA anymore,

Excellent!

> however partitions (of the MS-DOS type) are not recognised with any of
> the disks including one holding the root device, so the system fails
> to mount the root filesystem and therefore does not complete booting:

My mistake. An unrelated change to the revalidate logic in the last
patch. Fixed and pushed.

For your Mylex issue I believe the first patch in the series is all
that's needed:

06a471da0937 ("scsi: core: Query VPD size before getting full page")

Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering