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From: Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz
Subject: Re: crash unrelated to sym53c8xx
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 14:59:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090402125954.GD9784@develbox.linuxbox.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090402124924.GP8014@parisc-linux.org>

> Yes, that's somewhat more useful ... the tail of the stack trace in the
> photo indicates this isn't (at least directly) a bug in the sym53c8xx
> driver.  Can you get the rest of the crash message?  netconsole might
> help here if you don't have a serial console.
OK, I'll try to get the whole message using IPMI console.
I'll post it in ~2 hours...

> There's a few reasons this warning hasn't been fixed yet:
> 
>  - It only appears on module unload.  Most people don't unload sym53c8xx.
>  - The problem that it's warning about is only a problem on ARM.
>    There's not a huge userbase of ARM users with sym53c8xx cards.
>  - Fixing it requires a fairly large rewrite of how sym2 manages its
>    memory.  I've done about half the work required, but I've basically
>    run out of interest.
Hmm, maybe I don't understand what You mean by ARM, but it's i686 machine,
not arm (actually it's opteron, but running i686 OS).
but if it's reallu harmless, I don't have that big problem with it. only the crashes
really worry me :)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-02  7:54 sym53c8xx: WARNING on module unload, crashes on further usage Nikola Ciprich
2009-04-02 11:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-02 12:26   ` Nikola Ciprich
2009-04-02 12:28     ` Nikola Ciprich
2009-04-02 12:49       ` crash unrelated to sym53c8xx Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-02 12:59         ` Nikola Ciprich [this message]
2009-04-02 13:01           ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-02 19:39             ` Nikola Ciprich
2009-04-08  8:30               ` Nikola Ciprich
2009-04-08  8:42                 ` FUJITA Tomonori

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