On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:48:22PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Ryan Richter wrote: > > This applies cleanly to 2.6.14.2, do you forsee any problems using it > > with that kernel? I'd like to not change too many things at once. > > > No, I don't see any potential problems applying this patch to 2.6.14.2. > There is nothing specific to 2.6.15-rc2. > > If someone sees that there is something wrong, please yell. The > main purpose of the patch is not to call release_buffering() at the end of > st_write() when starting asynchronous write and call it in > write_behind_check() instead. OK, thanks. I think I'll go ahead and advance to 2.6.14.3 since that should theoretically not cause any problems. One question: do you think the oopses that happened later that actually crashed the box were from damage caused by this bug or is that a different problem? > > If it should be OK, I'll boot this tonight or tomorrow - the backups run > > every other night, so it won't get any testing until tomorrow night. > > > > Thanks a lot, > > -ryan > > > Thanks for reporting the problem and thanks in advance for testing. Sure thing, -ryan - : 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
