From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:59:18 -0600
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 06:06:03PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> > I tried to use Qlogic wide SE SCSI SBus controllers. First tied one in
> > Sparcstation 5 (sparc32) with etch and sarge installers, then tried
> > another in E3500. Both tries on SS5 hung when loadin qlogicpti module.
> > E3500 conf doesn't autoload SBus drivers and the card was properly
> > inserted only after installation, so I tried to modprobe qlogicpti after
> > booting up. This also results in a hang but outputs that much on console
> > before hanging. Maybe the error handling spinlock lockup gives a clue to
> > someone...
>
> What kernel version is this trace from?
FWIW, I personally haven't tested this driver in a long time, did
anyone give it at least a simple test when you made those
->slave_configure changes to this driver?
I'm talking about this one:
commit 9ec76fbf7d6da3e98070a7059699d0ca019b0c9b
Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon Oct 1 08:07:52 2007 -0600
[SCSI] qlogicpti: Add a slave_configure method
By configuring targets in slave_configure, we can eliminate a shadow
queuecommand, a shadow scsi_done, a write to the host template, abuse of
SCp->Message and SCp->Status, a use of kmap_atomic() and sniffing the
results of INQUIRY.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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