From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipr: Fix for adapter shutdown issue Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:17:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20050615151742.GA24061@infradead.org> References: <200506151515.j5FFFNQA020480@d01av01.pok.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:18404 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261163AbVFOPRo (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:17:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506151515.j5FFFNQA020480@d01av01.pok.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: brking@us.ibm.com Cc: James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, haren@us.ibm.com, gregkh@suse.de On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:15:22AM -0500, brking@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > James, > Haren found this in some recent kexec testing. Without this fix, the > ipr adapter's write cache never gets flushed. I'd like to see this > pushed into 2.6.12 if possible. Umm, there's tons of other drivers doing this. Greg, please revert your pci-layer ->shutdown thing for 2.6.12 and make convert all drivers when re-introducing it. Or even better make sure it doesn't break drivers setting ->shutdown themselves.