On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:04:40 -0400 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks Eric, that helps me understand. Section 8.2.2 of the open cciss > > spec supports a reset message. Target 0x00 is the controller. We could > > add this to the init routine to ensure the board is made sane again but > > this would drastically increase init time under normal circumstances. > > And I suspect this is a hard reset, also. Not sure if that would > > negatively impact kdump. If there were some condition we could test > > against and perform the reset when that condition is met it would not > > impact 99.9% of users. > > That's the precise reason of introducing the "crashboot" command line > parameter. Driver authors can check against this condition and reset > the device and 99.9% of the users are not impacted. Yes, that is a legitimate use. As long as there is indeed a noticeable downside to issuing the reset - if it turns out that it just takes a few milliseconds then we'd be better off dong the reset unconditionally. - : 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
