From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9: scsi_dev_flags
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:38:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031026083850.A15515@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031026144741.A4326@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>; from rmk@arm.linux.org.uk on Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:47:41PM +0000
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:47:41PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> So, I then tried doing exactly that:
>
> scsi_dev_flags=SyQuest:SQ3270S:4096
If that is the kernel boot line, you need to prefix the argument with
scsi_mod., i.e. scsi_mod.scsi_dev_flags=, per the module_param
interface(s).
> An additional question comes out from this - if quirk information is now
> to be passed on the kernel command line, how are users supposed to work
> out the correct command line argument to give for their quirky hardware
> given that it doesn't appear to be as trivial as the code suggests?
> (IOW, the scsi_dev_flags option appears to be rather undocumented!)
There is a bit in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, but there should be
more documentation added somewhere. Also the integer value can be hex
(0x1000).
-- Patrick Mansfield
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-26 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-26 14:47 2.6.0-test9: scsi_dev_flags Russell King
2003-10-26 16:38 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2003-11-01 13:13 ` Russell King
2003-11-01 17:11 ` Patrick Mansfield
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