Re: aic7xxx broken in 2.6.18-rc3-mm2

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Aug 11 2006 - 19:19:06 EST


On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:06:43 -0700
Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 17:50 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > 0000:02:01.0 0100: 9005:00cf (rev 01)
> > > 0000:02:01.1 0100: 9005:00cf (rev 01)
> >
> > OK strike that. The aic94xx cards all have IDs like 9005:04XX
> >
> > There does seem to be a cockup in the initialisation tables, but I can't
> > see how it could affect what you're seeing. (PCI_DEVICE() uses the .name
> > = value initialisation method and the fields following are unnamed). Do
> > you build both of these into the kernel, and if so does it work when
> > they're both modular?
>
> Yep, I build both of them in. Making them both modular will require a
> wee bit more time, as the aic7xxx has my root disk on it, and I don't
> have any initrds.
>
> In any case, I'm starting to get some funky results. I can't get the
> problem to reappear in the tree where I was doing the bisect, but my
> development tree where I first saw it is still broken.
>
> I'll do some more digging and get out a more reliable bug report.
>

CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE might be implicated, if it's enabled.
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