Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751972AbdGGQFZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:05:25 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39066 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750882AbdGGQFX (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:05:23 -0400 Subject: Re: device support in hpasa, was: Re: OOPS from cciss_ioctl in 4.12+git To: Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Meelis Roos Cc: Linux Kernel list , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Don Brace , Scott Benesh , Scott Teel , Kevin Barnett , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org References: <20170705225134.GA31786@infradead.org> <20170707150042.GA15445@infradead.org> <799cf0d6-658d-4124-1ba0-3962671e3f1e@kernel.dk> From: Hannes Reinecke Organization: SUSE Linux GmbH Message-ID: <248a8eed-84b2-ddbf-793b-76cfdf9f6f21@suse.de> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 18:05:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <799cf0d6-658d-4124-1ba0-3962671e3f1e@kernel.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1310 Lines: 36 On 07/07/2017 05:03 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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? > Oh, I do. hpsa is working happily on SLES for _all_ SmartArray controllers. You need to enable 'hpsa_allow_any=1', though. But I'm perfectly happy with making that the default and drop cciss completely. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)