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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Thanks Suman/Judy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">I’ll go ahead and pull the fix into the current trunk. Thanks for catching this Tom.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Thanks…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> SUMAN PRAKASH B [mailto:suman.p@samsung.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 14, 2016 8:06 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Judy Brock <judy.brock@samsung.com>; Robles, Raymond C <raymond.c.robles@intel.com>; Tom Freeman <thomas.freeman@wdc.com>; nvmewin <nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: RE: Issue with the latest OFA driver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Ray, Judy,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Yes, it makes good sense to pull in this patch for the upcoming release.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Suman<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>--------- <b>Original Message</b> ---------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b>Sender</b> : Judy Brock <<a href="mailto:judy.brock@samsung.com">judy.brock@samsung.com</a>> Engineer Staff/America Office(DS)-R&D-MSL - Enterprise Product Development - R&D/Samsung Electronics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b>Date</b> : 2016-11-12 04:58 (GMT+5:30)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b>Title</b> : RE: Issue with the latest OFA driver<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Personally, I think it makes good sense. Suman?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> nvmewin [<a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robles, Raymond C<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 11, 2016 10:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tom Freeman; nvmewin<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nvmewin] Issue with the latest OFA driver</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Thanks Tom.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Samsung (Judy/Suman), do you have any opinion on pulling in this patch for the upcoming release?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Thanks…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Ray</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Tom Freeman
<a href="mailto:[mailto:thomas.freeman@wdc.com]">[mailto:thomas.freeman@wdc.com]</a>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 11, 2016 7:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robles, Raymond C <<a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com">raymond.c.robles@intel.com</a>>; nvmewin <<a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Issue with the latest OFA driver</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ray,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In case you decide to include this fix in the latest release, here are the details:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The attached zip file, Ident-CNTIDPatch.zip (password = nvmehgst) contains:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Source subdirectory containing the modified code based on revision 139.
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">2.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">ControllerIdFix.patch containing the SVN patch to revision 139.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">3.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">README.txt – description of the problem and the fix.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Tom Freeman</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Software Engineer, Device Manager and Driver Development</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">HGST</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">, a Western Digital brand</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Email:
<a href="mailto:Thomas.freeman@wdc.com">Thomas.freeman@wdc.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Office: +1-507-322-2311</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Robles, Raymond C [<a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com">mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 1, 2016 1:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tom Freeman <<a href="mailto:thomas.freeman@wdc.com">thomas.freeman@wdc.com</a>>; nvmewin <<a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Issue with the latest OFA driver</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Hi Tom,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Good find!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">I’m of the opinion that it makes sense to get this patch in for the release we are about to announce. This is a minor fix for the Identify command that is isolated
to two scenarios. <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Does anyone else have any objections or feel we should wait for this patch?</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Depending on the feedback, we can go ahead and push a patch. I would say for now, please get the patch ready and then let’s hold for feedback from the community
reviewers… and go from there. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Thank you…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Ray</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Tom Freeman [</span><a href="mailto:thomas.freeman@wdc.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">mailto:thomas.freeman@wdc.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 01, 2016 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robles, Raymond C <</span><a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">raymond.c.robles@intel.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">>;
nvmewin <</span><a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Issue with the latest OFA driver</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">We’ve run into the following issue with the latest OFA driver.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">During initialization, the driver request for NVME Identify Namespace fails with a status of “invalid field in command”. Because of this, initialization fails
and the device does not show up. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The underlying cause is that the driver puts the controller ID value into CDW10.CNTID. A</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ccording
to the NVMe spec, that is only valid when CNS = 0x12 or 0x13. For all other cases, “the host shall clear this field to 0h”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’d like to make a patch for this. The fix would remove controller ID from any of the instance of NVMe Identify command (the driver does not use CNS = 0x12 or 0x13). How would
you like me to proceed to coordinate with the current 1.5 testing?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Tom Freeman</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Software Engineer, Device Manager and Driver Development</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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