Re: Linux 2.5.60

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:47:24 -0800


"Zephaniah E\. Hull" <warp@mercury.d2dc.net> wrote:
>
> Interesting BUG() on boot up.
>

The EATA driver's locking in there is so wrong I don't know how to begin to
describe it ;) Looks like a misguided cli() conversion.

Does this get you up and running?

scsi/eata.c | 4 ----
1 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/scsi/eata.c~eata-detect-fix drivers/scsi/eata.c
--- 25/drivers/scsi/eata.c~eata-detect-fix 2003-02-11 14:46:21.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/scsi/eata.c 2003-02-11 14:46:37.000000000 -0800
@@ -1450,9 +1450,6 @@ static void add_pci_ports(void) {

static int eata2x_detect(Scsi_Host_Template *tpnt) {
unsigned int j = 0, k;
- unsigned long spin_flags;
-
- spin_lock_irqsave(&driver_lock, spin_flags);

tpnt->proc_name = "eata2x";

@@ -1490,7 +1487,6 @@ static int eata2x_detect(Scsi_Host_Templ
}

num_boards = j;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&driver_lock, spin_flags);
return j;
}

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