From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
haren@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ipr: Fix for adapter shutdown issue
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:14:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B053D7.70509@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050615160147.GA27966@suse.de>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:17:42PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:15:22AM -0500, brking@us.ibm.com wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>James,
>>>Haren found this in some recent kexec testing. Without this fix, the
>>>ipr adapter's write cache never gets flushed. I'd like to see this
>>>pushed into 2.6.12 if possible.
>>
>>Umm, there's tons of other drivers doing this. Greg, please revert
>>your pci-layer ->shutdown thing for 2.6.12 and make convert all drivers
>>when re-introducing it. Or even better make sure it doesn't break
>>drivers setting ->shutdown themselves.
>
>
> I'm sorry, what pci-layer ->shutdown thing? Have a pointer to the patch
> in question that people are having problems with?
This is the one:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-pci&m=111751146113738&w=2
--
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-15 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-15 15:15 [PATCH 1/1] ipr: Fix for adapter shutdown issue brking
2005-06-15 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-15 16:01 ` Greg KH
2005-06-15 16:14 ` Brian King [this message]
2005-06-15 15:28 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-15 15:34 ` Brian King
2005-06-15 15:47 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-15 16:11 ` Brian King
2005-06-15 16:44 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-15 17:05 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-15 17:23 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-16 12:00 ` Jens Axboe
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