Re: [BUG] linux-next: Tree for March 25 kernel oops, when loading mpt fusion driver - regression

[David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:23:35PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 15:38 -0500, David Teigland wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:14:00PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> > > Hi Stephen,
> > > 
> > > Kernel bug is hit while booting up the next-20080325 kernel with MPT
> > > Fusion driver built in.This was reported previously for the
> > > next-20080320 kernel
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=120601013920868&w=2
> > 
> > Hi, did you ever get this fixed?  I've been having the same problem,
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=121061780821823&w=4
> > still exists on 2.6.26-rc8 for me,
> > 
> > Loading scsi_transport_spi.ko module
> > Loading mptscsih.ko module
> > Loading mptspi.ko module
> > Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.06
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:86:01.0[A] -> GSI 32 (level, low) -> IRQ 32
> > mptbase: ioc0: Initiating bringup
> > ioc0: LSI53C1030 B2: Capabilities={Initiator,Target}
> > mptbase: ioc0: PCI-MSI enabled
> 
> I speculate that this might be related to the problem.  The fusion
> driver was recently flipped to default to MSI enable (previously it had
> disabled them).  Could you boot it with the fusion module parameter
> 
> mpt_msi_enable=0
> 
> if it actually boots that will be a good confirmation that MSI is to
> blame.

It all works using that option.
Thanks,
Dave