On 2024/02/29 9:31, Elektrokinesis DJ wrote: > I am dissatisfied with the decision to remove SATA from the ipr driver, I > have multiple machines in my homelab that now require manual patching every > time I would like to update the kernel and initrd image. Bladecenter PS700 > uses the ipr SCSI driver if you install a common SATA SSD into the Planar > SAS slots. This limits me from being able to use newer kernels without > patching, unless I would like to procure expensive SAS SSDs. The ipr driver was the only libsas/ATA driver that had not been converted to the new libata error handling, and was thus preventing necessary cleanups in libata. When it was removed, it seemed that no-one was using ATA devices with IPR beside SATA DVDs, and very few people had this hardware to test anything. So it seems that devices beside DVDs were/are actually used. We can try to reintroduce the support for ATA in ipr, but that will not be a simple revert as the new EH handling needs to be supported. Brian, Any comment ? Is this feasible ? I do not have the hardware to work on this, so patches will have to be done by you or someone with access. -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research
