Re: [PATCH 0/6] hisi_sas: v2 hw SoC bug workarounds

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Tue Apr 11 2017 - 22:02:51 EST



John,

> This patchset introduces some v2 hw bug workarounds. Mostly they are
> related to SATA devices, but there is also a workaround for a scenario
> when internal abort command may timeout.
>
> The general rule for implementing workarounds was to do it in the hw
> layer, as the next hw revision should not include these bugs, so it is
> better not pollute the driver main layer with workarounds
>
> This patchset also includes 2 other patches, one for a possible NULL
> pointer deference and another for resetting the controller for fatal
> AXI/ECC errors.

Applied to 4.12/scsi-queue.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering