AW: AW: ARCMSR - Notify sense data report - Lost patch?

[Markus Stockhausen <stockhausen@collogia.de>]

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> Von: Tomas Henzl [thenzl@redhat.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 24. November 2014 15:47
> An: Markus Stockhausen; Christoph Hellwig
> Cc: ching2048@areca.com.tw; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> Betreff: Re: AW: ARCMSR - Notify sense data report - Lost patch?
> 
> On 11/24/2014 02:45 PM, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> >> Von: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org [linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org]" im Auftrag von "Christoph Hellwig [hch@infradead.org]
> >> Gesendet: Montag, 24. November 2014 14:23
> >> An: Markus Stockhausen
> >> Cc: ching2048@areca.com.tw; thenzl@redhat.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> >> Betreff: Re: ARCMSR - Notify sense data report - Lost patch?
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:47:02AM +0000, Markus Stockhausen wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> sorting out some diffs between the official Arcea driver and
> >>> the newest 3.18 patches I found a patch that might got lost:
> >>>
> >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/20/956
> >>>
> >>> Could you check if that is desired?
> >> Looks sensible to me.  Did you test it?
> > No not really, as I don't know how. We had a controller crash the last
> > week and I was wondering about the differences between vendor and
> > upstream version. So I basically did some code comparison between
> > the two source. Besides a lot of layout differences and other hacks
> > this was one of the first things I noticed and wondered what difference
> > those flags could make. Especially regarding stability.
> >
> > Hopefully Ching and/or Tomas know better as they seem repsonsible
> > for the rest of the 3.18 arcmsr patches.
> 
> I don't know why Ching hasn't re-posted this in later series.
> The Areca in-house driver works stable?

Sorry - No idea. We are on a stock kernel (3.10 longterm no vendor driver) 
and have to decide which way to go ... Sadly quite limited test possibilites. 
None of the two options feels 100% comfortable.

@Ching: Does any of the patches fit for stable?

Markus=

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