On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:08:03PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:57 -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > I haven't had time to review the eh changes, but I was going to reply to > > the other one (basically there's a better way to try to close the device > > add/host remove race using the host state model). > > > > Let me complete the SCSI process and I'll take them through the scsi-rc- > > fixes tree. > > Well, I think the symptoms are racing scsi_remove_host() calls and the > solution is to enforce the state model on removal (as in if the host is > already in the remove state, don't try to remove it again). > > Could you try the patch here: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=112613077011571 > > And see if it will fix the problem? That helped in that there is no more kernel oops. But the /sys/block/sdb device (and partitions) do not get removed from the kernel. So the next time I plug the device in, it gets bumped to "sdc". I can provide kernel logs of the unplug event if you wish. thanks, greg k-h - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
