From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: aic94xx panic on module insertion Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:08:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20060710170815.GD30179@us.ibm.com> References: <1152541373.7275.11.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <44B27F74.9000806@torque.net> <1152549628.7275.24.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:6361 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422710AbWGJRIN (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:08:13 -0400 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e36.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k6AH8DZV012126 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:08:13 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.6/NCO/VER7.0) with ESMTP id k6AH7NRN312104 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:07:23 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k6AH8CQc015013 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:08:12 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1152549628.7275.24.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 12:25 -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > aic94xx driver is loaded, it replaces the running version > > of the sequencer code with its own copy. If the reader > > sees numerous "tmf timeout" messages in their log then > > there is a good chance old sequencer code is the cause. > > And really, this driver needs to use the firmware loader, so this > no-longer becomes an issue. Well as I mentioned before it would be good if the distro support was more widespread before we cutoff the old method. I received a lot of questions recently from qla2xxx users who where use to doing kernel testing with not the latest distro version. They ran into issues when trying linux-2.6.18-rc1 (or git tree versions) along with trying to get the firmware loading support to work on there distro. -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@us.ibm.com