From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Linux-SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pulling failover out of qla2xxx
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:47:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040117184737.GA21846@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040117165226.GA29531@lst.de>
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:52:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
the "problem" for now is booting from qlogic; initrd's in current distros
don't work with request_firmware yet... while I'm sure this is a temporary
inconvenience, it is a real one. And it's not like the frontend modules are
THAT huge to keep around for a while until enough distros have this working
well.
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-17 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-16 20:02 pulling failover out of qla2xxx Andrew Vasquez
2004-01-16 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-17 16:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-17 20:52 ` Andrew Vasquez
2004-01-17 21:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-17 21:52 ` Andrew Vasquez
2004-01-18 10:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-16 23:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-16 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-17 16:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-17 18:47 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-01-17 18:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2004-01-16 1:36 Andrew Vasquez
2004-01-16 12:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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