On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:15:41PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/10/2014 02:54 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 14:00 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 09/10/2014 01:56 PM, Oliver Neukum wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 13:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Note this series is NOT intended for stable, but I accidentally > >>>> had "cc = stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" in my .git/config when sending > >>>> this series, please ignore for stable. > >>>> > >>>> NACK for stable. > >>> > >>> If this is not for stable, what do you intend to do about > >>> the problems in stable? For example patch#01 of this series > >>> looks like clear stable material to me. > >> > >> The plan for stable is mostly, as lame as that is, to make sure > >> we get all the right quirks in place so that error handling > >> does not get triggered, for now. > > > > How? A medium can be defect. Short of entirely disabling it, > > error handling will be triggered. > > I agree that this is a concern, but defective disks are not the > norm. All the bugs I've received sofar seem to be about incompatibilities > between the Linux uas/scsi stack and the device, not defective mediums. > > >> I agree that once this set has seen wider testing, we should > >> reconsider, and probably add it, to stable. But at this point > >> in time I'm worried that it may cause regressions, and as such > >> it is not stable material atm IHMO. > > > > Well, we would exchange something known to work imperfectly > > for something feared to work imperfectly. > > True. Note as said I'm not against this going into stable, I just don't > want to rush it into stable. So first lets get it reviewed and into > 3.18 (and see how it works for the users who have been having troubles > sofar, see my request for testing), and then see from there. > > I assume that you agree that this is (way) too late for 3.17? Yes it is. And I agree, let's test this out first, and if it solves problems, _then_ we can backport it to stable as needed. thanks for the patches, I'll queue them up for 3.18. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
