On Thu, Jul 02 2009, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 2:51 PM > > To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev) > > Subject: Fw: Re: [PATCH] cciss: Ignore stale commands after reboot > > > > > > oh, Jens already did it. > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:00:49 +0200 > > From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> > > Cc: scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, > > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mikem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] cciss: Ignore stale commands after reboot > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 02 2009, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > > > > > > When doing an unexpected shutdown like kexec the cciss > > firmware might > > > still have some commands in flight, which it is trying to complete. > > > The driver is doing it's best on resetting the HBA, but > > sadly there's > > > a firmware issue causing the firmware _not_ to abort or drop old > > > commands. > > > So the firmware will send us commands which we haven't > > accounted for, > > > causing the driver to panic. > > > > > > With this patch we're just ignoring these commands as there > > is nothing > > > we could be doing with them anyway. > > > > Looks good to me. Mike, Stephen? > > Sorry I haven't seen this before. The beardog addresses are no longer > valid. We moved into a dungeon and into a new domain. The good folks > in IT have yet to assign another IP address/domain name or an MX > record for the mail servers. I hope that by next week that will be > corrected. Until then all Steve and I have to use is some form of > OutHouse mail client. > > Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx> OK, I'll add the patch with your ack. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
