From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Smart Subject: Re: [patch 25/33] Fix the reproducible oops in scsi Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:21:00 -0500 Message-ID: <45C8E32C.7080402@emulex.com> References: <200702060040.l160e04u005027@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <1170775326.3634.14.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070206113942.afbc019b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: James.Smart@Emulex.Com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from emulex.emulex.com ([138.239.112.1]:64711 "EHLO emulex.emulex.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751753AbXBFUVQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:21:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070206113942.afbc019b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp Hannes and I will be fostering discussion at the upcoming IO summit to discuss options. -- james s Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:22:06 -0600 > James Bottomley wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:38 -0800, akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote: >>> From: OGAWA Hirofumi >>> >>> 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? >