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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: brking@us.ibm.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, haren@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipr: Fix for adapter shutdown issue
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:01:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050615160147.GA27966@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050615151742.GA24061@infradead.org>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:17:42PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

I'm sorry, what pci-layer ->shutdown thing?  Have a pointer to the patch
in question that people are having problems with?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-15 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-15 15:15 [PATCH 1/1] ipr: Fix for adapter shutdown issue brking
2005-06-15 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-15 16:01   ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-15 16:14     ` Brian King
2005-06-15 15:28 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-15 15:34   ` Brian King
2005-06-15 15:47     ` James Bottomley
2005-06-15 16:11       ` Brian King
2005-06-15 16:44         ` James Bottomley
2005-06-15 17:05           ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-15 17:23             ` James Bottomley
2005-06-16 12:00               ` Jens Axboe

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