In message <Pine.ULT.4.44.0608031104330.26503-100000@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
, "Michael L. Hitch" writes:
>On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Peter Seebach wrote:
>
>> Now I just need to find out why the kernel panics when a firewire device
>> is detached.  (Not the initial unplug, but three "fwctl -r" cycles later.)
>
>  I think I've used scsictl detach to detach a firewire device.  However,
>I don't think I've done much after that point (connecting the device
>again, etc), so I don't know how well that actually works.

Hmm!  I will try that.  On 3.99.21 or so, I was able to detach the device
cleanly.  Unfortunately, UPS dropped the machine, so now I have to build a new
one and I don't have that source tree anymore.

-s