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-rw-r--r--drivers/block/cciss.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index 2b485ca1150b..2cd230cfa813 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -4970,6 +4970,16 @@ static int cciss_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
ctlr_info_t *h;
unsigned long flags;
+ /*
+ * By default the cciss driver is used for all older HP Smart Array
+ * controllers. There are module paramaters that allow a user to
+ * override this behavior and instead use the hpsa SCSI driver. If
+ * this is the case cciss may be loaded first from the kdump initrd
+ * image and cause a kernel panic. So if reset_devices is true and
+ * cciss_allow_hpsa is set just bail.
+ */
+ if ((reset_devices) && (cciss_allow_hpsa == 1))
+ return -ENODEV;
rc = cciss_init_reset_devices(pdev);
if (rc) {
if (rc != -ENOTSUPP)