Re: [Fastboot] [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization?issue fix

[Horms]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:45:36AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > In article <m1veqqxyrb.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> > > 
> > > Not all pci busses support it but there is a standard pci bus reset bit
> > > in pci bridges.
> > > 
> > > I don't know if it would help but it might make sense to have a config
> > > option that can be used to mark drivers that are known to have problems,
> > > in these scenarios.
> > > 
> > > CONFIG_BRITTLE_INIT perhaps?
> > > 
> > > It would at least make it easier for people to see which drivers
> > > they don't want to use, and give people some incentive to fix things.
> > 
> > I believe that MPT Fusion could go on that list.
> > 
> > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ia64/14451
> > 
> >
> 
> Above link does not give details of exact MPT fusion initialization 
> problems faced on IA64. I faced MPT fusion initialization issues on
> i386/x86_64 and posted a fix.
> 
> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9bf0a28c9a24e2cee5deecf89d118254374c75ba
> 
> You might want to download and check.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I'll see if that helps on ia64.

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