Re: Panic on IBMMCA SCSI driver with 2.6.30

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:34:24 -0700
Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, this isn't a joke.  I actually still have an IBM 9595, and I've been
> running 2.4 on it all this time.  A friend of mine tried to upgrade one
> to 2.6 and couldn't get it to boot.  I managed to get a bit of serial
> console output of the error it is throwing.  I don't speak SCSI very
> well, so I'm hoping that you guys might have some insight.

Not a lot - the SCSI adapter in question is more of a smart controller
and I suspect the trap is because it was fed junk (eg invalid sg lists).
I doubt it gets tested very much somehow.
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