On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:36 -0400, R. Scott Bailey wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-alpha-smp > Version: 2.6.30-2 > Severity: important > > Well, the firmware loading logic has been flaky on my system for a few > releases now. I previously reported bug 527265 against 2.6.29, where the > qla1040 firmware would not load at all, and that was resolved in a later > 2.6.29 image. > > In this release (2.6.30-2) I get new/different bad behavior. My system > has three QLA1040 cards in it. In the attached console output from the boot, > notice that at time 23.256824, the first adapter (scsi0) is located, > generates a stack trace trying to load firmware, and fails to initialize > the card. (There goes my tape drive!) A little later, at 83.499957, the > second adapter is found and this time the firmware loads fine. Ditto for > the third adapter after that. [...] The warning that is triggered here will only appear once and does not necessarily lead to failure. So it may be a mere coincidence that the first card is not initialised properly. Anyway, this is clearly a bug in the firmware loading code. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.
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