* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > A further problem is probably that the GDTH timer is not stopped by a
> > failed GDTH probe?
> 
> Indeed. Maybe this is a better fix?
> 
> That driver is pretty messy, and this should have been found ealier. 
> James? Boaz?

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> @@ -5213,6 +5213,10 @@ static int __init gdth_init(void)
>  #endif /* CONFIG_PCI */
>  
>  	TRACE2(("gdth_detect() %d controller detected\n", gdth_ctr_count));
> +
> +	if (list_empty(&gdth_instances))
> +		return -ENODEV;

indeed - with this patch instead of the one i did the CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH=y 
bzImage boots up fine too, and no crash:

 Calling initcall 0x80a417e0: gdth_init+0x0/0xb20()
 GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.05
 GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
 initcall 0x80a417e0: gdth_init+0x0/0xb20() returned -19.
 initcall 0x80a417e0 ran for 5 msecs: gdth_init+0x0/0xb20()

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo
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