Re: Unloading sym53c8xx driver causes ___free_dma_mem_clusterwarnings

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Tue Nov 16 2010 - 14:27:25 EST


On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:13:09PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when unloading the sym53c8xx driver a number of kernel warning
> messages are printed:

Yes, this is well known (if you search the scsi archives, you'll find
several previous reports). It's harmless -- the only place it could hurt
is on ARM, and I've never heard of anyone plugging a sym2 card into an
ARM machine.

The fix would be quite involved, and the driver really isn't worth fixing
-- the hardware tops out at 160 MB/s which is an order of magnitude
lower performance than the hardware I'm currently working on.

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operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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