Bug#741686: linux-image-3.13-1-amd64: systemd-udevd kills long running mptsas module initailization, resulting in kernel oops

2014-04-07 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Hi, This regression is fairly complicated and it's high impact, as mptsas is being used to drive fairly popular controllers, including the entry-level ones in several generations of Dell PowerEdge servers. We've been debugging this for a while now over at Ubuntu's Launchpad[1] and the issue

Bug#741686: linux-image-3.13-1-amd64: systemd-udevd kills long running mptsas module initailization, resulting in kernel oops

2014-04-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 13:02 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Hi, This regression is fairly complicated and it's high impact, as mptsas is being used to drive fairly popular controllers, including the entry-level ones in several generations of Dell PowerEdge servers. We've been debugging

Bug#741686: linux-image-3.13-1-amd64: systemd-udevd kills long running mptsas module initailization, resulting in kernel oops

2014-03-15 Thread Ben Hutchings
Tomas reports that mptsas can crash if probe is interrupted by a signal: Tomas Cernaj tcer...@gmx.de wrote: Dear Maintainer, after upgrading from linux-image-3.12 to 3.13, systemd-udevd kills the mptsas module initialization during boot after 30 seconds while probing the SAS hardware. As a