Re: device support in hpasa, was: Re: OOPS from cciss_ioctl in 4.12+git

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Jul 07 2017 - 11:03:19 EST


On 07/07/2017 09:00 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 12:55:04PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
>>> Also we're trying to move people away from the cciss driver, can you
>>> check if the hpsa SCSI driver works for you as well?
>>
>> I have older adapter:
>>
>> Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 64xx [0e11:0046] (rev 01)
>>
>> That does not seem to be supported by hpsa AFAICS.
>
> Looks like. Although hpsa has support for various SA5 controllers
> it seems like it decided to skip all Compaq branded controllers.
>
> As far as I can tell we could simply add support for those to
> hpsa. Ccing hpsa folks to figure out if that's the case.

Pretty sure Hannes had a patch he tested for that, he talked about
that back at LSFMM earlier this year. Hannes?

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Jens Axboe