Re: [PATCH] aacraid: fix shutdown handler to also disable interrupts.

Yinghai Lu
2007-05-30T17:36:36Z

On 5/30/07, Salyzyn, Mark <mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com> wrote:
> Moves quiesce, thread and interrupt shutdown into aacraid drivers'
> .shutdown handler. This fix to the aac_shutdown handler will remove the
> superfluous reset of the adapter during a (clean) kexec.
>
> This fix may mitigate the active investigation 'kexec and aacraid
> broken' but it is unlikely to affect the root cause (issue likely
> present in both kexec and kdump). This patch reduces the chance the
> problem will occur with a kexec. The fix for root cause is currently
> expected to be the minimum value check to the aacraid.startup_timeout
> driver variable after an adapter reset within aacraid_commit_reset.patch
> submitted on 05/22/2007 and awaiting testing by Yinghai to confirm.
>
> This attached patch is against current scsi-misc-2.6
>
> ObligatoryDisclaimer: Please accept my condolences regarding Outlook's
> handling of patch attachments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
>
> Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn
>
the kernel with this patch -4 and even without

1. [SCSI] aacraid: superfluous adapter reset for IBM 8 series
ServeRAID controllers
2. [SCSI] aacraid: kexec fix (reset interrupt handler)
3. aacraid_commit_reset.patch

can load other kernel with or without patch 1,2,3

YH