Re: sym53c8xx_2 regressions in 2.6.9-rc2

["René Rebe" <rene@rocklinux-consulting.de>]

Hi,

Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:13:26PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
>>Do you have any ideas about this...it doesn't seem to be connected with
>>domain vaildation.  The errors apparently show up during operation.
> 
> 
> Thanks for forwarding this, James.  Rene, it would be useful for you
> to submit bug reports to the maintainer directly, or even contact linux-scsi.
> I don't have time to wade through the mountains of crap on linux-kernel.

And I'm not on any linux-* list, sorry. The next time I will write to 
linux-scsi directly.

>>On my U30 sparc64 box I get many errors in the system log:
>>
>>Sep 20 15:28:34 sundown kernel: sym0:0:0:phase change 6-7 11@c7ff7b90 
>>resid=6.
>>Sep 20 15:28:34 sundown last message repeated 2 times
>>
>>those did not show up in any other 2.6 kernel up to .8.1 ...
> 
> 
> When do these show up?  Are they at initialisation time or are they during
> normal operation?  You report the dmesg from a 2.6.8 kernel, how does the
> 2.6.9-rc2 one differ?  Is the sym2 driver version 2.1.18j in both kernels?

Both, at initialization time _and_ normal operation.

The 2.6.9-rc2 dmesg does list the same devices - but with 
"sym0:0:0:phase change 6-7 ..." between the devices beeing detected.

I'll rebuild the kernel with the defective scsi driver (I reverted the 
changes to get a functional system ...) when I'm back in the office in 
some hours. The 2.6.9-rc2 does contain the domain validation changes, I 
will take a look if the patch in 2.6.9-rc2 does change the version 
string if this matters.

Have fun,

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