The patch titled aoe: ignore vendor extension AoE responses has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is aoe-ignore-vendor-extension-aoe-responses.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: aoe: ignore vendor extension AoE responses From: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> The Welland ME-747K-SI AoE target generates unsolicited AoE responses that are marked as vendor extensions. Instead of ignoring these packets, the aoe driver was generating kernel messages for each unrecognized response received. This patch corrects the behavior. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: <karaluh@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: <karaluh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h | 1 + drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h~aoe-ignore-vendor-extension-aoe-responses drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h~aoe-ignore-vendor-extension-aoe-responses +++ a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ enum { AOECMD_ATA, AOECMD_CFG, + AOECMD_VEND_MIN = 0xf0, AOEFL_RSP = (1<<3), AOEFL_ERR = (1<<2), diff -puN drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c~aoe-ignore-vendor-extension-aoe-responses drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c~aoe-ignore-vendor-extension-aoe-responses +++ a/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c @@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ aoenet_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct n aoecmd_cfg_rsp(skb); break; default: + if (h->cmd >= AOECMD_VEND_MIN) + break; /* don't complain about vendor commands */ printk(KERN_INFO "aoe: unknown cmd %d\n", h->cmd); } exit: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx are aoe-ignore-vendor-extension-aoe-responses.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html