Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:43:25 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test4 and DAC960 |
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On Tue, Jul 18 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote: > Somewhere between 2.4.0-test1 and -test4, my DAC960 RAID controller stoped > working. As soon as the initialization for the controller starts, the > kernel OOPSes with a null pointer dereference in the swapper. > > No, I couldn't capture the oops. I can tell you that it's after the driver > has printed it's first line of introduction message and before it prints > anything else. That seems to narrow the problem down to one of the > initialization routines. > > The problem occures regardless of if the driver is compiled-in or a module, > and happens every time I boot, when it tries to check the partition before > mounting it.
This is a known problem. It happens because the DAC960 driver tries to use the block queue _before_ calling blk_init_queue(). I have informed Leonard about the problem, so he is aware of it and will fix it. I saw him at OLS today, so it probably won't get fixed within the next couple of days ;)
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> * SuSE Labs
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