James - Is there a way to turn of the enclosure services from the SCSI LLD, command line option, or some other method that doesn't require recompiling the kernel? The oops we are getting occurs on SLES11(2.6.27) when pulling the cable on certain enclosures. I see this with a HP and Xyratex enclosure. I don't see it on Engineo enclosures. On the enclosures where it hangs, there are no slot subfolders under /sys/class/enclosure. Apparently you have fixed this issue with the patch's that went into 2.6.32, e.g. ses: update enclosure data on hot add http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=124908744713234&w=2 ses: add support for enclosure component hot removal http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=124908728913082&w=2 ses: fix hotplug with multiple devices and expanders http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=124908718512951&w=2 Here is the sg_ses output (1) Xyratex; FAILS XYRATEX RS1603-SAS-01 0605 enclosure services device Supported diagnostic pages: Supported diagnostic pages [0x0] Configuration (SES) [0x1] Enclosure status/control (SES) [0x2] String In/Out (SES) [0x4] Threshold In/Out (SES) [0x5] Element descriptor (SES) [0x7] Additional element status (SES-2) [0xa] <unknown> [0x80] <unknown> [0x81] <unknown> [0x84] <unknown> [0x85] <unknown> [0x88] <unknown> [0x89] (2) HP: FAILS HP D2700 SAS AJ941A 0038 enclosure services device Supported diagnostic pages: Supported diagnostic pages [0x0] Configuration (SES) [0x1] Enclosure status/control (SES) [0x2] Threshold In/Out (SES) [0x5] Element descriptor (SES) [0x7] Additional element status (SES-2) [0xa] Supported SES diagnostic pages (SES-2) [0xd] <unknown> [0x11] (3) Engineo: WORKS LSI DE5300-SAS 0216 enclosure services device Supported diagnostic pages: Supported diagnostic pages [0x0] Configuration (SES) [0x1] Enclosure status/control (SES) [0x2] String In/Out (SES) [0x4] Element descriptor (SES) [0x7] Additional element status (SES-2) [0xa] The backtrace below is from enclosure_unregister, seems its deleting a NULL pointer from device_pm_remove. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 IP: [<ffffffff803e576b>] device_pm_remove+0x85/0xa0 Dec 16 15:28:51 PGD 1aac11067 PUD 1ad5fa067 PMD 0 Oops: 0002 [1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/cache/index2/shared_cpu_map dell2900u kernel Entering kdb (current=0xffff8801acd64440, pid 5559) on processor 1 Oops: <NULL> due to oops @ 0xffffffff803e576b r15 = 0xffff8801ab42a688 r14 = 0x50014380052c3a7e r13 = 0x0000000000000000 r12 = 0xffff880197d8c018 bp = 0x0000000000000000 bx = 0xffff880197d8c278 r11 = 0xffffffff8033d3f6 r10 = 0x0000000000000000 r9 = 0xffffffff80a47910 r8 = 0x0000000000000008 ax = 0x0000000000000000 cx = 0xffff880197d8c420 dx = 0x0000000000000000 si = 0x0000000000000040 di = 0xffffffff806f1310 orig_ax = 0xffffffffffffffff ip = 0xffffffff803e576b cs = 0x0000000000000010 flags = 0x0000000000010246 sp = 0xffff8801ac5a58e0 ss = 0x0000000000000018 ®s = 0xffff8801ac5a5848 [1]kdb> bt Stack traceback for pid 5559 0xffff8801acd64440 5559 2 1 1 R 0xffff8801acd64900 *fw_event0 sp ip Function (args) 0xffff8801ac5a58c8 0xffffffff803e576b device_pm_remove+0x85 (0xffff880197d8c278) kdb_bb: address 0x0000000000010246 not recognised Using old style backtrace, unreliable with no arguments sp ip Function (args) 0xffff8801ac5a5878 0xffffffff8033d3f6 disk_release 0xffff8801ac5a58c8 0xffffffff803e576b device_pm_remove+0x85 0xffff8801ac5a58f8 0xffffffff803dff9a device_del+0x13 0xffff8801ac5a5918 0xffffffff803e018a device_unregister+0x56 0xffff8801ac5a5928 0xffffffffa02e9699 [enclosure]enclosure_unregister+0x6d 0xffff8801ac5a5948 0xffffffff803e0025 device_del+0x9e 0xffff8801ac5a5968 0xffffffff803e018a device_unregister+0x56 0xffff8801ac5a5978 0xffffffffa0025b0d [scsi_mod]__scsi_remove_device+0x33 0xffff8801ac5a5998 0xffffffffa0025b7e [scsi_mod]scsi_remove_device+0x20 0xffff8801ac5a59b8 0xffffffffa0025c1b [scsi_mod]__scsi_remove_target+0x85 0xffff8801ac5a59d0 0xffffffffa0025c97 [scsi_mod]__remove_child 0xffff8801ac5a59d8 0xffffffffa0025cad [scsi_mod]__remove_child+0x16 0xffff8801ac5a59e8 0xffffffff803dfb35 device_for_each_child+0x22 0xffff8801ac5a5a38 0xffffffffa0025c8c [scsi_mod]scsi_remove_target+0x3a 0xffff8801ac5a5a58 0xffffffffa004a7d9 [scsi_transport_sas]sas_rphy_remove+0x29 [1]more> 0xffff8801ac5a5a78 0xffffffffa004a809 [scsi_transport_sas]sas_rphy_delete+0x9 0xffff8801ac5a5a88 0xffffffffa004a834 [scsi_transport_sas]sas_port_delete+0x22 0xffff8801ac5a5ac8 0xffffffffa02d1e81 [mpt2sas]mpt2sas_transport_port_remove+0x180 0xffff8801ac5a5ad8 0xffffffffa001b152 [scsi_mod]scsi_device_put+0x2f 0xffff8801ac5a5b28 0xffffffffa02cc521 [mpt2sas]_scsih_remove_device+0x2f0 0xffff8801ac5a5b68 0xffffffffa02c646e [mpt2sas]_config_request+0x51e 0xffff8801ac5a5c98 0xffffffffa02cb315 [mpt2sas]_scsih_sas_host_refresh+0x10c 0xffff8801ac5a5ce8 0xffffffffa02cf4db [mpt2sas]_mpt2sas_fw_work+0xccc 0xffff8801ac5a5da8 0xffffffff8049794e thread_return+0x3d 0xffff8801ac5a5e80 0xffffffffa02d053a [mpt2sas]_firmware_event_work 0xffff8801ac5a5ea8 0xffffffff8024b08d run_workqueue+0x7a 0xffff8801ac5a5ec8 0xffffffff8024b1eb worker_thread+0xd8 0xffff8801ac5a5ee0 0xffffffff8024e52a autoremove_wake_function 0xffff8801ac5a5f10 0xffffffff8024b113 worker_thread 0xffff8801ac5a5f28 0xffffffff8024e201 kthread+0x47 0xffff8801ac5a5f30 0xffffffff8023991f schedule_tail+0x27 0xffff8801ac5a5f48 0xffffffff8020cf49 child_rip+0xa [1]kdb> -- 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