Bug#644362: linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae: hpacucli hangs when creating disks on cciss
leo weppelman wrote:
> I will see if I can make a setup for this....
>
> As an extra datapoint, I had also tried the cciss-4.6.28-14.tar.bz2
> from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cciss/files/cciss-4.6-tarballs. I
> had to patch that source for the removal of the 'big lock' and that
> driver had the same problem. Which is logical (of course in retrospect
> ;-) because the problem seems to be caused from replacing the big-lock
> on the ioctl-function by the mutex_lock/unlock on cciss_mutex...
More clues:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1113910/focus=1114035
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