Re: qla2xxx hba crashes with older 2310 cards

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Apr 20 2007 - 16:33:37 EST


On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 13:24 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:40:30 -0500
>
> > I've seen some chatter about the qla2xxx driver but not paid attention, so
> > I'm sorry if this is a known issue. I've got an older qlogic hba, and recent
> > drivers don't seem to play nice with it. I've got the latest firmware from
> > qlogic's web site. I'm using a 2.6.21-rc6 kernel from Steve Whitehouse's
> > -nmw git tree. Reverting to an older driver (but same kernel) and it works.
> > The current driver gives this:
>
> Yes, known problem, I'm sorry these guys broke the driver for
> you as well, please see this thread:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117671067701124&w=2
>
> This was really a stupid change to make.

OK,OK, we heard you the first time ... the maintainers will try to fix
this in a manner acceptable to all concerned ... could we try to cool
down the public traductions now?

James


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