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Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:09:57 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Wed, Feb 07 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > So I would appreciate pointers to these devices that break so we
> > > can inspect them.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jens Axboe
> >
> > Adaptec drivers had an oops.  Also, AIC7XXX also had some oops with it.
> 
> most likely some coding error on your side. buffer-size mismatches should
> show up as filesystem corruption or random DMA scribble, not in-driver
> oopses.

I would suspect so, aic7xxx shouldn't care about anything except the
sg entries and I would seriously doubt that it makes any such
assumptions on them :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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