On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 2:03 PM Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 10.10.2022 14:31, James Hilliard wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:41 PM Martin K. Petersen > > <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Christian, > >> > >>> The faulty patch (Commit: 395e5df79a9588abf) from 2017 should be > >>> repaired with Konstantin Khorenko (1): > >>> > >>> scsi: aacraid: resurrect correct arc ctrl checks for Series-6 > >> > >> It would be great to get this patch resubmitted by Konstantin and acked > >> by Microchip. Can we merge this as is since microchip does not appear to be maintaining this driver any more or responding? > > > > Does the patch need to be rebased? > > James, i have just checked - the old patch (v3) applies cleanly onto latest master branch. > > > Based on this it looks like someone at microchip may have already reviewed: > > v3 changes: > > * introduced another wrapper to check for devices except for Series 6 > > controllers upon request from Sagar Biradar (Microchip) > > Well, back in the year 2019 i've created a bug in RedHat bugzilla > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724077 > (the bug is private, this is default for Redhat bugs) > > In this bug Sagar Biradar (with the email @microchip.com) suggested me to rework the patch - i've done > that and sent the v3. > > And nothing happened after that, but in a ~year (2020-06-19) the bug was closed with the resolution > NOTABUG and a comment that S6 users will find the patch useful. > > i suppose S6 is so old that RedHat just does not have customers using it and Microchip company itself > is also not that interested in handling so old hardware issues. > > Sorry, i was unable to get a final ack from Microchip, > i've written direct emails to the addresses which is found in the internet, tried to connect via > linkedin, no luck. > > -- > Konstantin Khorenko
