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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:14:44 +0200
From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
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To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
CC: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
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        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup
 / early userspace transition
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On 07/30/2013 02:56 AM, Nix wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2013, Douglas Gilbert outgrape:
>
>> Please supply the information that Martin Petersen asked
>> for.
>
> Did it in private IRC (the advantage of working for the same division of
> the same company!)
>
> I didn't realise the original fix was actually implemented to allow
> Bernd, with a different Areca controller, to boot... obviously, in that
> situation, reversion is wrong, since that would just replace one won't-
> boot situation with another.

Unless there is very simple fix the commit should reverted, imho. It 
would better then to remove write-same support from the md-layer.


Cheers,
Bernd
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