Re: IDE-SCSI only ; pre9, pre8 pre7ac7 all lock up on SCSI detection

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:22:02 +0000 (GMT)


> This points to a potential problem when a low-level SCSI driver calls
> scsi_done() with DID_ERROR return code from within the queue() function.
>
> And in addition, as I commented several times, ignoring multiple
> luns in ide-scsi:
>
> - Breaks multi-lun ATAPI devices such as PD-CD drives.

You did, I reversed the patch, I waited, everyone kept having crashes on boot,
2.2.0 time occured nobody fixed it so I put it back - less people get crashes
on boot so perhaps they can work on a fix.

> seem to occur with 2.0.x. It is harder to find and fix, but it
> is the direction we should be aiming at; fixing problems at
> their source, not hiding them under an incorrect fix, as they
> will likely surface up in another variant in the future.

Well nobody was fixing it for 2.2.0 so ..

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