From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11045] New: Bug in MPT Fusion 2.6.26-rc7 unbootable Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:44:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20080710164424.2a0c3622.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200807081051.33892.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <1215537813.3214.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200807081456.53460.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <20080708144720.998a13f2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1215554255.3214.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080709080814.GA801@lsil.com> <48762211.5040301@shiftmail.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <48762211.5040301@shiftmail.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: kurk Cc: "Prakash, Sathya" , James Bottomley , Bjorn Helgaas , "Support, Software" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org" , "Moore, Eric" List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:52:01 +0200 kurk wrote: > Prakash, Sathya wrote: > > This may be a problem due to enabling MSI for SPI controllers. I have posted another message in the list providing the correction patch which is already in scsi-misc tree. > > If the problem is gone with changing the module parameter mpt_msi_enable=0 or by applying the patch http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=121131228827682&w=4 then it might be due to MSI enabling. > > > Another good news: I confirm that yes, the problem is also fixed by the > patch linked above by Sathya, and in that case it is not needed to > specify option mpt_msi_enable=0 for mptbase. Any one of the two (patch > or option) is enough to fix the problem. > It would be nice to see this patch in the final release of the 2.6.26 kernel > Thank you James, shouldn't we put that into 2.6.26? That whole patch series looks pretty desirable actually..