Re: Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-14 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 11:37:03AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: What exactly are they fixing? They look like they add a ton of new functions to the driver, and other features. What is so broken in the driver today

Re: Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-14 Thread Roland Dreier
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Greg KH gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: What exactly are they fixing? They look like they add a ton of new functions to the driver, and other features. What is so broken in the driver today that warrants this type of exception to the rules? Let me start by

Re: Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-14 Thread Quinn Tran
Greg K-H, These changes were developed and come to agreement between QlogicĀ¹s team and the Target customer. The customer had verified the fix in their environment in addition with our test environment. Even though existing code is in stable tree show no symptom. Under stress, we found a nest

Re: Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-13 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 17:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:00:45PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Greg-KH, This is a follow up on a handful of 'WTF' emails for some of the recent qla2xxx target patches from v4.2-rc5 CC'ed for v3.18.y stable. a6ca8878

Re: Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-13 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:00:45PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Greg-KH, This is a follow up on a handful of 'WTF' emails for some of the recent qla2xxx target patches from v4.2-rc5 CC'ed for v3.18.y stable. a6ca8878 qla2xxx: delay plogi/prli ack until existing sessions are

Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-13 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Hi Greg-KH, This is a follow up on a handful of 'WTF' emails for some of the recent qla2xxx target patches from v4.2-rc5 CC'ed for v3.18.y stable. a6ca8878 qla2xxx: delay plogi/prli ack until existing sessions are deleted daddf5cf qla2xxx: Abort stale cmds on qla_tgt_wq when plogi arrive

Re: Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-13 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 18:13 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 18:09 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 05:55:48PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 17:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:00:45PM -0700, Nicholas A.

Re: Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-13 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 18:09 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 05:55:48PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 17:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:00:45PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Greg-KH, This is a follow up on a

Re: Stable backports for qla2xxx target mode

2015-08-13 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 05:55:48PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 17:49 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 02:00:45PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Greg-KH, This is a follow up on a handful of 'WTF' emails for some of the recent