From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.0 aic7xxx and aic79xx stale pci_device list entry Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:41:50 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1075473710.4272.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> References: <1073076654.2048.19.camel@opiate> <1073120514.4429.0.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <1282412704.1073168696@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20040104100448.GA2416@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <2228980000.1075440305@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VKHrYx+e4L0oSWNnUJZb" Return-path: Received: from nat-pool-bos.redhat.com ([66.187.230.200]:7526 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261152AbUA3Ol4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:41:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <2228980000.1075440305@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: Eric Kerin , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org --=-VKHrYx+e4L0oSWNnUJZb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 00:25, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > > > ----------------- > >=20 > > There are 2 reasons to work this way, and I would very much prefer the > > adaptec drivers to behave like this: > > 1) PCI Hotplugging > > 2) Adding PCI ID's at runtime > >=20 > > While you may not care about 1), a lot of IHV/distros care about 2); eg= if > > Adaptec puts out a card that can be driven by aic79xx but with just a n= ew > > PCI ID, hardware vendors can just add the ID at runtime and have it wor= k in > > the (factory) installer etc but only *if the driver is loaded* .... >=20 > Well, if you look at the Adaptec drivers, they already attach to all > possible IDs for the chips that are supported. They do this by registeri= ng > a very generic PCI ID table and filtering all requests through their > own tables. =20 May I ask why this is done? It sounds not the right thing that needs all kinds of special cases in the OS userland... Greetings, Arjan van de Ven --=-VKHrYx+e4L0oSWNnUJZb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAGm0txULwo51rQBIRAtaIAJ0Y8QAlEtR2v3yFvEXIMlllcT6ocACfQcfL Wj+Jf6WjqI9NEqsfkfyHdwM= =re0w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VKHrYx+e4L0oSWNnUJZb--