From: Dave C Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsi kexec fix
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:28:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051202192820.GA10115@cs.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051115155300.GA26724@cs.umn.edu>
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:53:00AM -0600, Dave C Boutcher wrote:
> James, this is a 2.6.15 candidate...it makes ibmvscsi work
> correctly with the recent set of kexec patches that went in.
> This is based on work by Michael Ellerman, who chased this
> initially. He validated that it works during kexec.
>
> Handle kexec correctly in ibmvscsi. During kexec the adapter
> will not get cleaned up correctly, so we may need to reset it
> to make it sane again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
James, if this doesn't make it into 2.6.15 it won't totally break
my heart, since I'm not sure how many people are using ppc64
kexec, but was there some reason this patch wasn't included in
your 2.6.15 fixes?
--
Dave Boutcher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-02 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-15 15:53 [PATCH] ibmvscsi kexec fix Dave C Boutcher
2005-12-02 19:28 ` Dave C Boutcher [this message]
2005-12-05 2:52 ` James Bottomley
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