From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave C Boutcher Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsi kexec fix Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:28:20 -0600 Message-ID: <20051202192820.GA10115@cs.umn.edu> References: <20051115155300.GA26724@cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: boutcher@cs.umn.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail.cs.umn.edu ([128.101.32.202]:33480 "EHLO mail.cs.umn.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750777AbVLBT2W (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:28:22 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051115155300.GA26724@cs.umn.edu> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman 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 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