Re: [PATCH] cciss: disable doorbell reset on reset_devices

[Jens Axboe]

On 2010-08-18 16:45, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
> From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The doorbell reset initially appears to work correctly,
> the controller resets, comes up, some i/o can even be
> done, but on at least some Smart Arrays in some servers,
> it eventually causes a subsequent controller lockup due
> to some kind of PCIe error, and kdump can end up leaving
> the root filesystem in an unbootable state.  For this
> reason, until the problem is fixed, or at least isolated
> to certain hardware enough to be avoided, the doorbell
> reset should not be used at all.

Thanks Stephen, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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