From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: [PATCH] aacraid: superfluous adapter reset for IBM 8 series ServeRAID controllers Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 09:37:56 -0700 Message-ID: <46376CE4.7080403@us.ibm.com> References: Reply-To: "Darrick J. Wong" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:58322 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754736AbXEAQhY (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 12:37:24 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l41Fa26E024095 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 11:36:02 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l41GbNqp531692 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 12:37:23 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l41GbMVc029613 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 12:37:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Salyzyn, Mark" Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Alexis Bruemmer , James Bottomley Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > The kexec patch introduced a superfluous (and otherwise inert) reset of > some adapters. The register can have a hardware default value that has > zeros for the undefined interrupts. This patch refines the test of the > interrupt enable register to focus on only the interrupts that affect > the driver in order to detect if an incomplete shutdown of the Adapter > had occurred (kdump). Tests out ok on the affected machines, so: Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong --D