Re: 2.6.0-test9-bk26 fails boot -- aic7890 detection

From: Pete Clements
Date: Sat Nov 22 2003 - 20:59:11 EST


Quoting James Bottomley
> On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 15:09, Pete Clements wrote:
> > Quoting James Bottomley
> > > On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 09:09, Pete Clements wrote:
> > > > 2.6.0-test9-bk26 boot hangs after ide detection. Next detect normally
> > > > scsi AIC7XXX. Has been good for all prior test9-bk's.
> > >
> > > I'm assuming bk26 contains the latest set of SCSI diffs (they were
> > > merged on 21 Nov around 14:00 PST)?
> > >
> > > I've never successfully managed to get the aic7xxx driver to work on my
> > > parisc platform. However, both with and without the latest SCSI diffs
> > > the behaviour seems the same (it does print out the driver banner before
> > > failing to connect to the drives). I take it you aren't seeing this
> > > banner?
> >
> > Correct, no banner and bk26 has a scsi_scan change.
>
> Hmm, I can't reproduce this. However, when I alter the aic7xxx driver
> actually to work on my 2944W card, I do see a kobject badness error
> (although it still boots up for me).
>
> Could you try this patch (from Mike Anderson). It makes the kobject
> badness go away for me, and so may fix your problem. If it doesn't,
> I'll have to defer to people who have aic cards and x86 hardware.

Patch applied, no change, same hang.
--
Pete Clements
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