From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipr: Fix for adapter shutdown issue Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:01:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20050615160147.GA27966@suse.de> References: <200506151515.j5FFFNQA020480@d01av01.pok.ibm.com> <20050615151742.GA24061@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from lyle.provo.novell.com ([137.65.81.174]:64683 "EHLO lyle.provo.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261197AbVFOQCF (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:02:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050615151742.GA24061@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: brking@us.ibm.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, haren@us.ibm.com 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