Re: highpoint driver problem, 2.4.21-ac4

Wilfried Weissmann (Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at)
Sun, 06 Jul 2003 00:07:33 +0200


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Wil Reichert wrote:
> Thats the kernel I'm using.

could you try the attachted patch, and report if this changes something?

bye,
wilfried

>
> Wil
>
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:21:30 +0200
> Wilfried Weissmann <Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at> wrote:
>
>
>>Wil Reichert wrote:
>> >>> The on-board Highpoint controller (HPT372A) on my DFI NF2 is
>> >>> having issue. Loading the hptraid module results in a 'No such
>> >>> device' message while the hpt366 module segfaults and leaves an
>> >>> oops in my logs. These errors occur regardless of the disk/raid
>> >>> configuration in the hpt BIOS. Following are the oops trace, an
>> >>> lsmod, the .config and a lspci -vvv.
>> >>
>> >> The crash occurs in the hpt366 module. Loading hptraid will not
>> >> work because it depends on the kernel to claim the disks of the
>> >> raid volume (that is what hpt366 would do). I will add autoloading
>> >> of the ide-controller module in the next raid-driver release.
>> >> However, I do not know why the kernel oopses. You might want to try
>> >> to build the hpt366 code into the kernel instead of a module. If it
>> >> works it would probably mean that "ide_hwif_t *hwif" was not
>> >> properly initalized.
>> >
>> > I initially had all the hpt modules built into the kernel, but that
>> > would also produce an oops and die immediately after ID'ing the two
>> > drives I have on attached. Would any more information be of use to
>> > you?
>>
>>2.4.21-ac4 contains several fixes for the hpt37x. Please try this patch out.
>>
>>bye,
>>Wilfried

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--- linux/drivers/ide/setup-pci.c.orig 2003-07-06 00:04:06.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/drivers/ide/setup-pci.c 2003-07-06 00:04:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static int ide_setup_pci_baseregs (struc
* is already in DMA mode we check and enforce IDE simplex rules.
*/

-static unsigned long __init ide_get_or_set_dma_base (ide_hwif_t *hwif)
+static unsigned long ide_get_or_set_dma_base (ide_hwif_t *hwif)
{
unsigned long dma_base = 0;
struct pci_dev *dev = hwif->pci_dev;

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