On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 12:13:55AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Actually, SMP commands are used during device discovery to find > things attached to expanders, so it seems likely that "it blows up > almost immediately after loading the module" symptoms are a result > of this bug. > > That said, the bug that Jeff fixed resulted in extra permissions > (+w) being set for the SMP request buffer, so that's probably why > I've never seen any problems manifesting on x260/x3800 systems. > > (Unless the CalIOC2 has a write only mode?) It does (you can turn on each of the R and W bits in the TCE entry seperately) but we don't make use of it - we set it to either none, RO or RW. Cheers, Muli - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
