From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Bottomley <jejb@steeleye.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec@hp.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com
Subject: Re: megaraid driver (proposed patch)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:07:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050325190732.GA15497@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111777477.5692.29.camel@mulgrave>
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:04:37PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> You get a kernel with two drivers trying to claim some of the same set
> of cards. The winner will be the driver that gets its init routines
> called first, but this isn't a desirable outcome.
>
> I wouldn't object to a patch that allows both *modules* to be built,
> which is all I think the distros are after.
The new megaraid driver doesn't support old hardware. Maybe we should
drop the overlapping pci ids from the old driver?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-25 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-25 18:22 megaraid driver (proposed patch) Bruno Cornec
2005-03-25 18:39 ` James Bottomley
2005-03-25 18:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-25 19:04 ` James Bottomley
2005-03-25 19:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-03-25 19:13 ` Ricardo Colon
2005-03-25 19:24 ` James Bottomley
2005-03-25 19:59 ` Bruno Cornec
2005-03-31 12:58 ` Thierry Vignaud
2005-03-31 13:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
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