From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: pulling failover out of qla2xxx Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 19:47:37 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040117184737.GA21846@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <20040117165226.GA29531@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:47292 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266146AbUAQSr6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:47:58 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040117165226.GA29531@lst.de> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrew Vasquez , James Bottomley , Linux-SCSI --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACYNJxULwo51rQBIRAvMkAJ9ibBtr/whwsyB+K1CdhYgHO4HK+gCeJb41 eRJPi5OWbS56GLj5knSTFNk= =MjiN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN--