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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unloading sym53c8xx driver causes ___free_dma_mem_cluster warnings
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:27:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116192718.GC6178@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101116191309.DD04C14E644@gemini.denx.de>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:13:09PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when unloading the sym53c8xx driver a number of kernel warning
> messages are printed:

Yes, this is well known (if you search the scsi archives, you'll find
several previous reports).  It's harmless -- the only place it could hurt
is on ARM, and I've never heard of anyone plugging a sym2 card into an
ARM machine.

The fix would be quite involved, and the driver really isn't worth fixing
-- the hardware tops out at 160 MB/s which is an order of magnitude
lower performance than the hardware I'm currently working on.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-16 19:13 Unloading sym53c8xx driver causes ___free_dma_mem_cluster warnings Wolfgang Denk
2010-11-16 19:27 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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