From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arthur Marsh Subject: Re: eata fails to load on post 4.2 kernels Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:30:18 +0930 Message-ID: <55F146A2.7020103@internode.on.net> References: <55EC019F.4010209@internode.on.net> <55EC2567.8000100@internode.on.net> <55ECA291.1060103@internode.on.net> <55ECFF32.9030902@linux.intel.com> <55ED2DFA.6030502@internode.on.net> <55EE6FD1.2030600@linux.intel.com> <55F13644.2080203@internode.on.net> <55F13B9A.4090101@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net ([150.101.137.141]:41496 "EHLO ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752500AbbIJJAY (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:00:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <55F13B9A.4090101@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jiang Liu Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jiang Liu wrote on 10/09/15 17:43: > Hi Authur, > Thanks for the updating. Seem Bjorn doesn't like > neither of my two patches. So I'm trying to convert eata > to formal PCI driver, but the change will be much more > bigger and still not sure whether we could achieve that. > Will keep you updated. > Thanks! > Gerry Thanks, I'm a bit concerned since the original commit 991de2e59090e55c65a7f59a049142e3c480f7bd broke things badly for me (requiring irqpoll to avoid a kernel hang) and neither of the patches enabled kexec reboots to work like before the original commit. I just tested a kexec reboot with irqpoll enabled and that continues to fail, so I'm back to running 4.2 kernel until there is a patch that works with kexec reboots. Arthur.