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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:10:12 -0400
From: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@...il.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@...tuozzo.com>,
Christian Großegger <christian@...ssegger.com>,
linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
Adaptec OEM Raid Solutions <aacraid@...rosemi.com>,
Sagar Biradar <sagar.biradar@...rochip.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Don Brace <don.brace@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/1] aacraid: Host adapter Adaptec 6405 constantly
resets under high io load
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 2:03 PM Konstantin Khorenko
<khorenko@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
>
> On 10.10.2022 14:31, James Hilliard wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:41 PM Martin K. Petersen
> > <martin.petersen@...cle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Christian,
> >>
> >>> The faulty patch (Commit: 395e5df79a9588abf) from 2017 should be
> >>> repaired with Konstantin Khorenko (1):
> >>>
> >>> scsi: aacraid: resurrect correct arc ctrl checks for Series-6
> >>
> >> It would be great to get this patch resubmitted by Konstantin and acked
> >> by Microchip.
Can we merge this as is since microchip does not appear to be maintaining
this driver any more or responding?
> >
> > Does the patch need to be rebased?
>
> James, i have just checked - the old patch (v3) applies cleanly onto latest master branch.
>
> > Based on this it looks like someone at microchip may have already reviewed:
> > v3 changes:
> > * introduced another wrapper to check for devices except for Series 6
> > controllers upon request from Sagar Biradar (Microchip)
>
> Well, back in the year 2019 i've created a bug in RedHat bugzilla
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724077
> (the bug is private, this is default for Redhat bugs)
>
> In this bug Sagar Biradar (with the email @microchip.com) suggested me to rework the patch - i've done
> that and sent the v3.
>
> And nothing happened after that, but in a ~year (2020-06-19) the bug was closed with the resolution
> NOTABUG and a comment that S6 users will find the patch useful.
>
> i suppose S6 is so old that RedHat just does not have customers using it and Microchip company itself
> is also not that interested in handling so old hardware issues.
>
> Sorry, i was unable to get a final ack from Microchip,
> i've written direct emails to the addresses which is found in the internet, tried to connect via
> linkedin, no luck.
>
> --
> Konstantin Khorenko
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