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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
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Subject: Re: bogus vscsi dt node on iseries
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On Thu, Aug 23, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:51:21 +0200 Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Does anyone know why dt_vdevices() creates a vscsi node on legacy iseries?
> > I'm sure only viodasd and viocd is required as blockdevice type.
> 
> Because the IBM vscsi client (in theory) works on legacy iSeries.

I'm asking because there are many unneeded nodes.
Have you tried to create only the nodes for disks/cds that are really
present and modify viodasd to use only device-tree data?