Re: [PATCH 3/3] cxlflash: Shutdown notify support for CXL Flash cards

On 6/15/2016 6:49 PM, Uma Krishnan wrote: Some CXL Flash cards need notification of device shutdown in order to flush pending I/Os. A PCI notification hook for shutdown has been added where the driver notifies the card and returns. When the device is removed in the PCI remove path, notification

Re: block: don't check request size in blk_cloned_rq_check_limits()

On 06/16/2016 11:59 PM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: On 06/16/2016 09:35 AM, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: On 06/15/2016 01:34 PM, Brian King wrote: [...] did you ever try to reproduce this with an upstream kernel? Now that the topic is under discussion, I've asked for some time

Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] smartpqi: initial commit of Microsemi smartpqi driver

Hi Don/Kevin, some comments inline (mostly stulistic nothing architectural) On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 05:48:16PM -0500, Don Brace wrote: > From: Kevin Barnett > > This initial commit contains WIP of Microsemi's smartpqi module. > > Reviewed-by: Scott Benesh

Kernel panics while creating RAID volume on latest stable 4.6.2 kernel beacuse of "[PATCH v2 3/3] ses: fix discovery of SATA devices in SAS enclosures"

Hi, Try creating RAID volume on latest stable 4.6.2 kernel, as soon as the volume gets created kernel panics , below are the logs... Carried out same experimentation on 4.4.13 kernel, issue was not observed.After learning diff b/w 4.4.13 & 4.6.2 kernels "[PATCH v2 3/3] ses: fix discovery of

Re: [PATCH] VMW_PVSCSI: Change to update maintainer details (name, email)

On Fri, 2016-06-17 at 17:44 +, Jim Gill wrote: > On 6/16/16, 8:11 PM, "Julian Calaby" wrote: > > > > > > > [] > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > > [] > > > The question to me is whether or not

Re: [PATCH] VMW_PVSCSI: Change to update maintainer details (name, email)

I don’t yet know enough to comment on the relocation of vmw_pvscsi into a new vmware folder. I was considering offering a new patch that removed the “maintained by” from the two source files and updated MAINTAINERS, but I’m happy to defer to people with more experience. I’m fine either way.

[PATCH] scsi: libfc: fix seconds_since_last_reset calculation

The fc_get_host_stats() function contains a complex conversion from jiffies to timespec to seconds. As we try to get rid of uses of struct timespec, we can clean this up and replace it with a simpler computation. Simply dividing the difference in jiffies by HZ is not only much more efficient, it

Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH] VMW_PVSCSI: Change to update maintainer details (name, email)

Hi! IMO we shouldn't have maintainer info mentioned in the source files, since the information is redundant and moreover if we change maintainer a patch touching multiple files would just look odd, and we'd leave a lot of stale info in older kernels. Having the linux git *master* MAINTAINERS

Re: [PATCH 2/2] scsi: wd7000: print sector number as 64-bit

On Friday, June 17, 2016 1:36:52 AM CEST kbuild test robot wrote: > > All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>): > >drivers/scsi/wd7000.c: In function 'mail_out': >drivers/scsi/wd7000.c:915:44: warning: cast from pointer to integer of > different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast] >