Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:59 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: > On 06/23/2015 12:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:47 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: > >> On 06/23/2015 12:45 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:33 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: > On 06/2

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/23/2015 12:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:47 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/23/2015 12:45 PM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:33 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/23/2015 08:35 AM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, S

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:47 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: > On 06/23/2015 12:45 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:33 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: > >> On 06/23/2015 08:35 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/23/2015 12:45 PM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:33 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/23/2015 08:35 AM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: Hi, Upstream contributor should not add copyright to this driver code. I can't ag

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 12:33 -0500, Timothy Pearson wrote: > On 06/23/2015 08:35 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Upstream contributor should not add copyright to this driver code. > > > > I can't agree with that as a general

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/23/2015 08:35 AM, James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: Hi, Upstream contributor should not add copyright to this driver code. I can't agree with that as a general rule: it depends on the significance of the contribution. The somewhat ill defi

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Sreekanth Reddy
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:05 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Upstream contributor should not add copyright to this driver code. > > I can't agree with that as a general rule: it depends on the > significance of the contribution.

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:06 +0530, Sreekanth Reddy wrote: > Hi, > > Upstream contributor should not add copyright to this driver code. I can't agree with that as a general rule: it depends on the significance of the contribution. The somewhat ill defined standard for this is the contribution mus

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Sreekanth Reddy
Hi, Upstream contributor should not add copyright to this driver code. Regards, Sreekanth On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Joe Lawrence wrote: > > > On 06/21/2015 02:46 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> On 06/16/2015 01:49 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: >>> On 06/16/2015 12:42 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: >

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-23 Thread Joe Lawrence
On 06/21/2015 02:46 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: > On 06/16/2015 01:49 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> On 06/16/2015 12:42 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: >>> On 06/16/2015 12:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: > The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does n

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-21 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/16/2015 01:49 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:42 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can hap

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-16 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/16/2015 12:42 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: On 06/16/2015 12:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too slow to respond during

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-16 Thread Joe Lawrence
On 06/16/2015 12:28 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: > On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: >> The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one >> memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too >> slow to respond during POST and is missed by the BIOS, but L

Re: [PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-16 Thread Timothy Pearson
On 06/12/2015 05:05 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote: The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too slow to respond during POST and is missed by the BIOS, but Linux then detects the device later in the boot process.

[PATCH] mpt2sas: Abort initialization if no memory I/O resources, detected

2015-06-12 Thread Timothy Pearson
The mpt2sas driver crashes if the BIOS does not set up at least one memory I/O resource. This failure can happen if the device is too slow to respond during POST and is missed by the BIOS, but Linux then detects the device later in the boot process. This patch aborts initialization and prints a