From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: fix crash in gdth_timeout()
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192485348.14524.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710151006400.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:08 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > A further problem is probably that the GDTH timer is not stopped by a
> > failed GDTH probe?
>
> Indeed. Maybe this is a better fix?
>
> That driver is pretty messy, and this should have been found ealier.
> James? Boaz?
It was:
http://marc.info/?t=119238793200002
and that patch was my best guess for fixing this as well ... do we have
someone with actual hardware to confirm it yet? (apparently QEMU uses
gdth as some type of emulated controller).
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 16:55 [patch] scsi: fix crash in gdth_timeout() Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-15 17:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-15 18:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-15 19:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-15 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-15 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-15 22:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 19:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 21:55 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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