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

[Laurence Oberman]

On 07/07/2017 11:03 AM, 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?

What happens when  hpsa_allow_any=1 with the Smart Array 64xx
It should probe.