The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.6.24-rc1 eventually causes a "irq X: nobody cared" error after a while: commit 99c9e0a1d6cfe1ba1169a7a81435ee85bc00e4a1 Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 5 15:55:12 2007 -0400 [SCSI] sym53c8xx: Make interrupt handler capable of returning IRQ_NONE After this happens, the kernel disables the IRQ, causing the SCSI card to stop working until the next reboot. The problem is caused by the interrupt handler returning IRQ_NONE instead of IRQ_HANDLED after handling an interrupt-on-the-fly (INTF) condition. The following patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- James, please queue for scsi-rc-fixes-2.6. Thanks! --- linux-2.6.24-rc5-git3/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c.orig 2007-12-14 15:07:09.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc5-git3/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_hipd.c 2007-12-14 15:07:31.000000000 -0500 @@ -2791,7 +2791,7 @@ irqreturn_t sym_interrupt(struct Scsi_Ho istat = INB(np, nc_istat); if (istat & INTF) { OUTB(np, nc_istat, (istat & SIGP) | INTF | np->istat_sem); - istat = INB(np, nc_istat); /* DUMMY READ */ + istat |= INB(np, nc_istat); /* DUMMY READ */ if (DEBUG_FLAGS & DEBUG_TINY) printf ("F "); sym_wakeup_done(np); } - 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