Re: crash unrelated to sym53c8xx

Nikola Ciprich
2009-04-02T12:59:55Z

> 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 :)