On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Ryan Richter wrote: > 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? > I looked at the oopses but, not knowing enough about what is happening inside the kernel, I can only hope that they are caused by the st bug(s). We will see after testing with the patch. -- Kai - : 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
