Re: 2.6.5-rc1 SCSI + st regressions (was: Linux 2.6.5-rc1)

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:12:03PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> I have some SCSI troubles with 2.6.5-rc1 (from BK) that 2.6.4 didn't
> have.
> 
> Modprobe, loading the st driver, tries a NULL pointer dereference in
> kernel space and my 2nd tape drive isn't found: st1 is not shown. cat
> /proc/scsi/scsi (typed after the attempted zero page dereference) hangs
> in rwsem_down_read_failed with process state D.

I notice you're using the sym2 driver.  Could you try backing out the
changes made to it in 2.6.5-rc1, just to be sure we're looking at an st
problem, not a sym2 problem?

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