Bug#644362: linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae: hpacucli hangs when creating disks on cciss

[leo weppelman <leoweppelman@gmail.com>]

Jonathan,

I haven't tried it yet with the newer kernels. I will wait until Debian/Wheezy will be released before trying something new. There is no pressing need at the moment and I am pretty busy, so no time to experiment :-(
However, when cciss and/or hpacucli fail on wheezy, I will chime in with a new bug report ;-)

Thanks,

Leo.

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Leo,

In October, 2011, leo weppelman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> > leo weppelman wrote:

>>>             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
>
> I tried to reproduce the problem with 3.1.0-rc7-686-pae from
> experimental as you requested, but I failed. The problem is that
> hpacucli does not find any controllers with this kernel :-(

Hopefully since then hpacucli has gained support for 3.x.y kernels. :)
Are you still able to reproduce this using 2.6.39?  Do newer kernels
work any better?

Thanks again for the clear report, and sorry for the long silence.

Sincerely,
Jonathan