From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: pulling failover out of qla2xxx Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 17:52:26 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040117165226.GA29531@lst.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([212.34.189.10]:8685 "EHLO mail.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266100AbUAQQw4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:52:56 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Vasquez Cc: James Bottomley , Linux-SCSI , Arjan van de Ven On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:02:50PM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > Now from a development and maintenance standpoint, I can understand > the reluctance of having to accept a 100K file for each ISP type. > But, let me just say QLogic is looking into other ways of distributing > firmware images. Finally, given the addition of some new binary-load > user->kernel space facilities (namely request_firmware()) the space > issue becomes moot. If we go to request_firmware the frontend modules are mood and we should just kill all of them.