On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:04:24 -0400
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> o cciss driver initialization fails and hits BUG() if underlying device
>   was active during the driver initialization. Device might be active
>   if previous kernel crashed and this kernel is booting after that using
>   kdump.
> 
>
> ...
>
> o If crash_boot parameter is set, then ignore the completed command messages
>   sent by device which have not been issued in the context of this kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> 
>  linux-2.6.17-1M-vivek/drivers/block/cciss.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff -puN drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-initialization-issue-over-kdump-fix 
> drivers/block/cciss.c
> --- 
> linux-2.6.17-1M/drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-initialization-issue-over-kdump-fix
>    2006-06-23 14:04:55.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.17-1M-vivek/drivers/block/cciss.c       2006-06-23 
> 14:08:12.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1976,6 +1976,13 @@ static int add_sendcmd_reject(__u8 cmd, 
>                       ctlr, complete);
>               /* not much we can do. */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE
> +             /* We might get notification of completion of commands
> +              * which we never issued in this kernel if this boot is
> +              * taking place after previous kernel's crash. Simply
> +              * ignore the commands in this case.
> +              */
> +             if (crash_boot)
> +                     return 0;
>               return 1;

Looks like this is working around a driver problem rather than fixing it
properly ;)

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