Re: [Kernel 2.5] Qlogic 2x00 driver

[Simon Roscic <simon.roscic@chello.at>]

On Wednesday 16 October 2002 04:51, Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>  wrote:
> Version 6.1b5 does appear to be a big improvement from looking
> at the code (certainly much more readable than version 4.x end earlier).
i'll try version 6.01 or so next week and i will see what happens.
thanks for your help.

> Although the method for creating the different modules for
> different hardware is pretty ugly.
>...
i see.

> This was happening in pretty much all kernels I tried (a variety of
> redhat kernels and aa kernels). Removing LVM has solved the problem.
> Although i was blaming LVM - maybe it was a buffer overflow in qla driver.
looks like i had a lot of luck, because my 3 servers wich are using the
qla2x00 5.36.3 driver were running without problems, but i'll update to 6.01
in the next few day's.

i don't use lvm, the filesystem i use is xfs, so it smells like i had a lot of luck for 
not running into this problem, ...


simon.
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