From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>,
Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>,
Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Do we still need the scsi IPR driver ?
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 09:35:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c1f12d2-9211-85ef-dfd5-e091ea1559d7@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f2efa8a-8207-403c-12e8-74f43d8d8a14@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 10/5/22 19:20, Brian King wrote:
> On 9/20/22 8:07 AM, John Garry wrote:
>> On 21/06/2022 23:12, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>>>> We still need it around for now. IBM still sells these adapters
>>>>> and they can still be ordered even on our latest Power 10 systems.
>>>> At one point I did look into modifying ipr to use an ->error_handler.
>>>> I recall I ran into some issues that resulted in this getting put
>>>> on the shelf, but its been a while. I'll go dig that code up and
>>>> see what it looks like.
>>> Thanks. It would be really great if you can convert to using
>>> error_handler. This is really the last ata/libsas driver that does not use
>>> this.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> I am wondering if there is any update here?
>>
>> As you may have seen in [0], I think that we need to make progress on this topic first to keep the solution there a bit simpler.
>>
>> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/1663669630-21333-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com/T/#mf890cb4f1627112652831524dca62cbde4a0a637
>
> I've made some progress. I was able to dig up the code to move ipr to use error_handler
> and have gotten it to compile, but haven't gotten to trying it in the lab yet.
>
Hmm. In which machines can I find an IPR installed? I could go hunting
in our lab, maybe I can locate one and aid testing/development ...
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-06 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-20 4:48 Do we still need the scsi IPR driver ? Damien Le Moal
2022-06-20 7:35 ` Hannes Reinecke
2022-06-21 20:36 ` Brian King
2022-06-21 20:52 ` Brian King
2022-06-21 22:12 ` Damien Le Moal
2022-09-20 13:07 ` John Garry
2022-10-05 17:20 ` Brian King
2022-10-05 21:21 ` Damien Le Moal
2022-10-06 7:35 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2022-10-13 3:36 ` Brian King
2023-03-10 9:56 ` John Garry
2023-03-13 23:43 ` Brian King
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