Re: [patch] scsi: fix crash in gdth_timeout()

[James Bottomley]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:08 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > A further problem is probably that the GDTH timer is not stopped by a
> > failed GDTH probe?
> 
> Indeed. Maybe this is a better fix?
> 
> That driver is pretty messy, and this should have been found ealier. 
> James? Boaz?

It was:

http://marc.info/?t=119238793200002

and that patch was my best guess for fixing this as well ... do we have
someone with actual hardware to confirm it yet?  (apparently QEMU uses
gdth as some type of emulated controller).

James


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