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Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal

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On 18/11/2016 01:53, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 7:23 AM, John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> wrote:
>> On 11/11/2016 08:49, wangyijing wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have not seen the flutter issue. I am just trying to solve the
>>>>>> horrible WARN dump.
>>>>>> However I do understand that there may be a issue related to how we
>>>>>> queue the events; there was a recent attempt to fix this, but it came to
>>>>>> nothing:
>>>>>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg99991.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We found libsas hotplug several problems:
>>>>> 1. sysfs warning calltrace(like the case you found);
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe you can then review my patch.
>>>
>>>
>>> I did it, I think your solution to fix the sysfs calltrace issue is ok,
>>> and what I worried about is we still need to fix
>>> the rest issues. So it's better if we could fix all issues one time.
>>>
>>
>> @Maintainers, would you be willing to accept this patch as an interim fix
>> for the dastardly WARN while we try to fix the flutter issue?
>
> To me this adds a bug to quiet a benign, albeit noisy, warning.
>

What is the bug which is being added?

And it's a very noisy warning, as in 6K lines on the console when an 
expander is unplugged.

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Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2016-11-17 18:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-11-18 03:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2016-11-18 10:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-11-18 20:10 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2016-11-21 16:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-11-21 18:20 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2016-11-22 18:00 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal wangyijing <wangyijing@huawei.com> - 2016-11-23 02:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] scsi: libsas: fix WARN on device removal "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2016-11-18 03:00 +0100

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