On 05/12/2018 02:14, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
John,
Hi Martin,
Are you happy for us to make DIX support in this driver "hisi_sas DIX
experimental" short term?
That's entirely your call, it's your driver/controller. I just want the
experimental tag to be due to reasons on *your* end.
Well unfortunately at the moment we cannot definitively say that it is
an issue on our end. There's a reasonable chance it is.
If it's reasons on my end they'll need to get fixed. We shouldn't have
drivers circumventing features because of bugs in the core block/SCSI
code...
Right, of course not. I'm just a bit stuck now, since we need to
upstream the DIF support ASAP, but it is being held back by the DIX support.
You did request not to throw away DIX support, so I can send a new
patchset with DIF and DIX support separated out, and we can leave the
DIX patch in limbo until we get to the bottom of the DIX issue.
I hope it's ok.
Thanks,
John
