[RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization?issue fix

[vgoyal at in.ibm.com (Vivek Goyal)]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> In article <m1veqqxyrb.fsf at ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > Not all pci busses support it but there is a standard pci bus reset bit
> > in pci bridges.
> > 
> > I don't know if it would help but it might make sense to have a config
> > option that can be used to mark drivers that are known to have problems,
> > in these scenarios.
> > 
> > CONFIG_BRITTLE_INIT perhaps?
> > 
> > It would at least make it easier for people to see which drivers
> > they don't want to use, and give people some incentive to fix things.
> 
> I believe that MPT Fusion could go on that list.
> 
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ia64/14451
> 
>

Above link does not give details of exact MPT fusion initialization 
problems faced on IA64. I faced MPT fusion initialization issues on
i386/x86_64 and posted a fix.

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9bf0a28c9a24e2cee5deecf89d118254374c75ba

You might want to download and check.

Thanks
Vivek