Re: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthru commands

[Martin K. Petersen]

>>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

James> Subject: [PATCH] scsi: mpt3sas: fix hang on ata passthrough
James> commands

James> mpt3sas has a firmware failure where it can only handle one pass
James> through ATA command at a time.  If another comes in, contrary to
James> the SAT standard, it will hang until the first one completes
James> (causing long commands like secure erase to timeout).  The
James> original fix was to block the device when an ATA command came in,
James> but this caused a regression with

Broadcom folks: Please test and ack as soon as possible so we can get
this fix queued up.

Ingo: Since you appear to have hardware, it would be great if you could
test James' v3 (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9519383/). Sorry for
the inconvenience.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering