twe and giant

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 06:36:56PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was just wondering about this...  I recently bumped a soon-to-be 
> production box to 6.0 as it seems like upgrading now is easier than doing 
> it the week after the box goes into production (it's amazing how the 
> release engineering team knows to schedule this way...:).
> 
> One thing I noticed in reviewing the boot messages is that twe is still 
> under the giant lock:
> 
> twe0: <3ware Storage Controller. Driver version 1.50.01.002> port 
> 0x2860-0x286f mem 0xf4000000-0xf47fffff irq 17 at device 13.0 on pci0
> twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE8S 1.05.00.068, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048
> 
> I bring this up because I could have sworn that I read here or elsewhere 
> that this driver was revamped.  I also could have sworn that at some point 
> in 5.x it was not under giant.  Maybe I'm imagining things...

Under later 5.x the message was not reported except under boot -v
because too many people were seeing the message and panicking thinking
that it was a regression compared to 4.x, since 4.x didn't say
anything about giant locking (but of course under 4.x the ENTIRE
KERNEL was giant locked).

> Anyhow, does anyone know the status of this, and also is there a central 
> repository that tracks changes like this that I can watch?

Yes, you can subscribe to the cvs mailing lists.

Kris
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