Comment 34 for bug 684304

Ah, did not actually check for it but apparently there is a new driver hpsa which is implemented as a scsi driver and is claimed to be the way to go for newer smart arrays. The docs say that cciss is a block driver that is used for disks and tapes which seemed to give people headaches.

Another point of interest, this boot was not done with "pci=nocrs", so the top-down instead of bottom up assignment is actually still in use. However there was a second patch used to build the kernel which specifically addresses some problems with subtractive decode bridges (whatever that exactly is). So as things seem to work, the major issue was there (iirc the fact the patch was needed also came from the changes about the resource assignment). The other thing will likely change as well but at least this seems to hint that only the smaller of the two patches needs to be carried temporarily to fix the issue.

[This should get verified probably by building another test kernel with only that change]