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To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>, "kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>, Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>, linux-driver@qlogic.com, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

On 07/29/2010 12:51 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> kernel_kexec()
>>    kernel_restart_prepare()
>> 	device_shutdown()
>>
>> I would suspect it to be a qla2xxx driver problem that it did not shut
>> down the device properly.
> 
> And device_shutdown calls every drivers .shutdown method.
> 
> Things like this are always a driver problem.
> 

Anyone from Qlogic who can comment/confirm/deny/investigage?

	-hpa

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