Fix Emulex "oce" driver in CURRENT

[Steven Hartland]

On 05/12/2014 13:07, Borja Marcos wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
>
>> On 04/09/2014 09:49, Borja Marcos wrote:
>>> On Jun 30, 2014, at 8:02 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think these sound fine, but I've cc'd Xin Li (delphij@) who has worked with
>>>> folks at Emulex to maintain this driver.  He is probably the best person to
>>>> review this.
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Seems 10.1 is on the pipeline now, but as far as I know none of these fixes have been applied to -STABLE. Any chances to do it yet? As far as I know, the "oce" driver is currently unusable in -STABLE. I managed to cause a panic reliably within 30 seconds.
>> Was there any conclusion to this, current and releng/10.0 & releng/10.1 seem pretty similar with regards oce but a customer is reporting panics very similar to this thread.
>>
>> Did the commit of the additional locking never make it in?
> Not as far as I know. I´ve updated a couple of machines here to 10-STABLE and I've been applying the patch manually myself.
>
> I don't think it's been applied even to -HEAD.
>
> For now I've told my coworkers to avoid Emulex cards whenever possible. As far as  I know the driver is unusable in its present state.
Thanks for the quick reply Borja, review of the patch is now up:
/https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1269

Hopefully we can get this in the tree and make oce usable moving forward.

     Regards
     Steve
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