MESH problems in 2.2.x

[Paul Mackerras]

Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at cs.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:

> During boot up I now see the message:
> 
>     scsi1: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset

The reset and abort handling in the mesh driver needs to be updated;
the way the scsi mid-layer expects them to work changed during the 2.1
series but I haven't updated the mesh driver to the new way yet,
partly because I don't know exactly what the new way is. :-)

> Since the message mentions `syncronous reset' and since the old Conner doesn't
> seem to do synchronous mode, this makes me think the mesh driver fails with
> synchronous devices in 2.2.x. Is this correct? Does anyone else see this
> problem?

It's working OK for me now with a 2.3.4 kernel, having fixed ioremap
(the fix is now in vger for both the 2.2 and 2.3 branches).

If you want to disable sync mode, you could change the initializer for
mesh_sync_targets in drivers/scsi/mesh.c from 0xff to 0.

Regards,
Paul.

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