Re: rmmod/delete_module hangs forever

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 02:39:47PM -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> Strace gives me this fun in the end:
> delete_module("button", O_RDONLY|O_EXCL|O_NONBLOCK
> and it just sits there.
Ok, after much head-scratching and bisect-powered reboots I have
disproved for myself that this is a kernel issue.

Instead it's some weird interaction between certain BIOS settings on my
motherboard (ASUS P5Q Premium) and my SCSI controller (HP SC11Xe,
FusionMPT based) I use for tape specifically when there are no SCSI
devices on the bus. Skipping the mptspi module, or connecting a SCSI
device causes the problem to go away, ditto changing some settings in
the BIOS that cause IRQs to be allocated differently.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
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