Bug 12662

Summary: linux 2.6.29-rc3 kernel failure with mptsas
Product: SCSI Drivers Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component: OtherAssignee: scsi_drivers-other
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.29-rc3 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 12398    

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-02-08 11:44:25 UTC 
Subject    : linux 2.6.29-rc3 kernel failure with mptsas
Submitter  : "Morten P.D. Stevens" <mstevens@win-professional.com>
Date       : 2009-02-05 22:29
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123387302729741&w=4
Handled-By : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123396429501103&w=4

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.28.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.
Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-02-14 14:04:09 UTC 
On Saturday 14 February 2009, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
> Update:
> 
> today i installed linux 2.6.29-rc5 and there a no problems?
> 
> no errors or kernel failures in dmesg.
> 
> linux 2.6.29-rc5 works fine but something is strange:
> 
> > -   init_timer(&pCfg->timer);
> > +   init_timer_on_stack(&pCfg->timer);
> 
> this wasn't changed?
> 
> Anyway it