From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: erich <erich@areca.com.tw>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
billion.wu@areca.com.tw, akpm@osdl.org, oliver@neukum.org
Subject: Re: Areca RAID driver remaining items?
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:56:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224165647.GA4176@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140695990.19361.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:59:50AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2006-02-23 at 17:50 +0800, erich wrote:
> > But unfortunately I found some mainboards will hang up if I always enable
> > this function in my lab.
> > To avoid this issue, I do an option for this case.
> >
> > But Christoph Hellwig give me comment with it.
>
>
> Another thing you can also do for many of these cases is to use either
> the PCI or DMI interfaces to identify the problem board and
> automatically set the option as well.
>
> There are two ways to do this. One is
Please avoid that unless really nessecary. I doubt there's boards where
MSI would only be broken with the areca card but not with other MSI-capable
ones. If a board or chipset is generally broken vs MSI it should be
added to the global MSI blacklist. It's probably be nice to have a global
nomsi boot option instead of one in every driver aswell..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-20 18:02 Areca RAID driver remaining items? Dax Kelson
2006-02-20 18:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-20 18:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-22 6:27 ` erich
2006-02-22 6:27 ` erich
2006-02-22 14:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-23 6:27 ` erich
2006-02-23 6:27 ` erich
2006-02-23 8:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 9:50 ` erich
2006-02-23 9:50 ` erich
2006-02-23 9:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 11:51 ` erich
2006-02-23 11:51 ` erich
2006-02-23 12:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-24 2:08 ` erich
2006-02-24 2:08 ` erich
2006-02-24 8:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-23 11:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-24 2:36 ` erich
2006-02-24 2:36 ` erich
2006-02-24 16:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-02-24 17:03 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-24 19:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-24 20:14 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-26 6:41 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-26 16:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-26 19:00 ` Randy.Dunlap
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-24 3:18 erich
2006-02-24 3:18 ` erich
2006-02-27 11:27 erich
2006-02-27 11:27 ` erich
2006-02-27 12:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
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