From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc9 kernel BUG and mvsas Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:04:25 -0700 Message-ID: <200912101404.26094.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> References: <200909090414.41274.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Reply-To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson , linux-scsi , Linux IDE mailing list List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Thu December 10 2009, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > When removing this extra option, it compiles with vanilla 2.6.32 just > > fine. I crashes the same way as the ubuntu kernel when hot-plugging a > > disk as well (this time I did it without gdm/x running and it oopses, > > but unfortunately the highest part of the oops scrolled off). It's 100% > > reproducible anyway, so basically the controller is a no-go in 2.6.31.6 > > and 2.6.32 both vanilla and ubuntu versions, both without and including > > the nov09 mvsas patch (at least the original version of the patch as > > posted). Different failure scenarios though... With the stock kernel > > the controller seems to get stuck in writing and nothing more happens > > but at least the machine doesn't crash and burn like it does with the > > mvsas-patch. > > Would it make sense for me to log this problem in bugzilla? There seems > to be a similar issue with equal hw: > > > > did these fixes ever go upstream? Are they scheduled to go into the > stable rebuilds of 2.6.32 ? The patches mentioned in there, are these the > ones I already tried that didn't solve my problem? > I'm really hoping Andy Yan or someone else on the project can get some time to polish up the last patch set posted to linux-scsi. There were a few comments regarding them, but no one has responded to them yet. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@shaw.ca