Re: NCR adaptor doesn't see devices (was: 2.5.43 aic7xxx segfault)

From: Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 18:12:21 EST


        Hello Davidsen , I hope the Sym-2 driver is what you are using ?
        From the dmesg output I suspect that is not the case . If there
        is only the one Symbios/LSI driver I hope it is the Sym-2
        version . Hth , JimL

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, davidsen wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Adam Radford wrote:
> > > I think sd_synchronize_cache() is getting called after SHT->release()
> > > function,
> > > which couldn't possibly be right. This causes adaptec, 3ware, etc, to
> > > segfault
> > > on rmmod.
> > > See below for adaptec segfault output:
> [ let's not ]
> > Are you sure it is not a BUG? This looks just like what Badari reported
> > yesterday:
> [ more BUG output snipped ]
> > I posted a patch to change the put_device() calls to device_unregister(),
> > st.c got fixed in 2.5.43, these are still not fixed in 2.5.43:
>
> I got the same type of thing in 2.5.43, 43-mm2. Applied the patch below
> and the BUG went away. Unfortunately the NCR still doesn't see the
> attached devices, normally a CD and tape drive. I pulled the tape drive to
> see if that helps, it didn't. All works just fine with 2.4.recent. dmesg
> output attached to preserve format.

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