From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767243AbXDTUdW (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:33:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767242AbXDTUdV (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:33:21 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:55210 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767240AbXDTUdU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:33:20 -0400 Subject: Re: qla2xxx hba crashes with older 2310 cards From: James Bottomley To: David Miller Cc: rpeterso@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com, hch@lst.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070420.132402.119227720.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4628DEEE.3060205@redhat.com> <20070420.132402.119227720.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:33:09 -0400 Message-Id: <1177101189.3718.49.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 13:24 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Robert Peterson > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:40:30 -0500 > > > I've seen some chatter about the qla2xxx driver but not paid attention, so > > I'm sorry if this is a known issue. I've got an older qlogic hba, and recent > > drivers don't seem to play nice with it. I've got the latest firmware from > > qlogic's web site. I'm using a 2.6.21-rc6 kernel from Steve Whitehouse's > > -nmw git tree. Reverting to an older driver (but same kernel) and it works. > > The current driver gives this: > > Yes, known problem, I'm sorry these guys broke the driver for > you as well, please see this thread: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117671067701124&w=2 > > This was really a stupid change to make. OK,OK, we heard you the first time ... the maintainers will try to fix this in a manner acceptable to all concerned ... could we try to cool down the public traductions now? James