From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:26:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:25:49 -0500 Received: from cliff.mcs.anl.gov ([140.221.9.17]:48768 "EHLO mcs.anl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:25:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5B8F34.125231D4@mcs.anl.gov> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:22:44 -0600 From: JP Navarro Organization: Argonne National Laboratory X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miles Lane CC: Ken Brunsen/Iris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-2.4.0 scsi problems on NetFinity servers In-Reply-To: <3A5B7DB3.F29D02CE@mcs.anl.gov> <3A5B847A.3010200@megapathdsl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Miles Lane wrote: ... > Are you saying that this is a hardware bug that is impossible to > develop a work-around for in the kernel? If this is just a bug, > shouldn't we try to fix it rather than avoid it? This is hardware behaving as designed but not supported by the kernel. IBM was aware of the problem and working on a solution. Since the offending hardware is a PCI card that is useless under Linux. The simple solution is to remove it. If IBM wants these cards to work with Linux they should do a lot more than supply patches that keep the kernel from crashing. At a minimum, publish specs so someone else can patch the kernel and write drivers to make full use of the card's features under Linux. We're still hoping. > If you have detailed information about the interrupt problem, > perhaps you could send it to the list and see if a fix is possible. Wish I could have. Our machines would totally freeze. JP Navarro - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/