From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030611AbWF0Cmv (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:42:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030609AbWF0Cmu (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:42:50 -0400 Received: from koto.vergenet.net ([210.128.90.7]:16578 "EHLO koto.vergenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933331AbWF0Cmr (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:42:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:30:48 +0900 From: Horms To: Vivek Goyal Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrew Morton , Neela.Kolli@engenio.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mike.miller@hp.com, "Zou, Nanhai" , fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization?issue fix Message-ID: <20060627023048.GJ2956@verge.net.au> References: <20060626090915.CA8333402A@koto.vergenet.net> <20060626134536.GB8985@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060626134536.GB8985@in.ibm.com> X-Cluestick: seven User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:45:36AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > In article you wrote: > > > > > > Not all pci busses support it but there is a standard pci bus reset bit > > > in pci bridges. > > > > > > I don't know if it would help but it might make sense to have a config > > > option that can be used to mark drivers that are known to have problems, > > > in these scenarios. > > > > > > CONFIG_BRITTLE_INIT perhaps? > > > > > > It would at least make it easier for people to see which drivers > > > they don't want to use, and give people some incentive to fix things. > > > > I believe that MPT Fusion could go on that list. > > > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ia64/14451 > > > > > > Above link does not give details of exact MPT fusion initialization > problems faced on IA64. I faced MPT fusion initialization issues on > i386/x86_64 and posted a fix. > > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9bf0a28c9a24e2cee5deecf89d118254374c75ba > > You might want to download and check. Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I'll see if that helps on ia64. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/