Bug#502552: (obvious) workaround found

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>]

Peter Daum <gator_ml@yahoo.de> writes:

> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> a possible workaround is to use
>> modprobe qla2xxx ql2xfdmienable=0
>> to disable FDMI completely.
>
> actually, the workaround isn't all that obvious; modinfo qla2xxx says:
> ... 
> ql2xfdmienable:Enables FDMI registratons Default is 0 ...
>
> so another possible "fix" would be to just initialize the correspoding
> variable with "0" instead of "1", adjusting the program code to match
> the documentation.

I sent in a patch changing the documentation to match the code
instead.  The default changed no so long ago; it's probably an
oversight.

> The other patch still would be a good thing, because even then
> ql2xfdmienable=1 on the wrong adapter shouldn't cause the driver to
> crash.

It's in stable-queue, but unfortunately didn't make it into 2.6.26.7.
-- 
Feri.