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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp,
	James.Smart@Emulex.Com
Subject: Re: [patch 25/33] Fix the reproducible oops in scsi
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:39:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206113942.afbc019b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170775326.3634.14.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:22:06 -0600
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:38 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
> > 
> > I got the oops after some hotplug events. And the similar oops can
> > reproduce by the following step.
> 
> James Smart already pointed out that this fix isn't valid ... it's a
> bandaid that doesn't fix the underlying problem.
> 

That's why I included his comments in the changelog.

Is anyone going to fix it for real?  Do we know _how_ it should be fixed?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06  0:38 [patch 25/33] Fix the reproducible oops in scsi akpm
2007-02-06 15:22 ` James Bottomley
2007-02-06 19:39   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-02-06 20:21     ` James Smart

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