From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Brian J King <bjking1@us.ibm.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi: add module alias for ibmvscsic
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:06:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120730190606.GD3155@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343611946.21647.23.camel@pasglop>
On Mon, Jul 30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 18:49 +0200, olaf@aepfle.de wrote:
> > From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> >
> > The driver is named ibmvscsic, at runtime it its name is advertised as
> > ibmvscsi. For this reason mkinitrd wont pickup the driver properly.
> > Reported by IBM during SLES11 beta testing:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459933
> > LTC50724
>
> So while this would work, I do wonder however whether we could instead
> fix it by simplifying the whole thing as follow since iSeries is now
> gone and so we don't need split backends anymore:
>
> scsi/ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction
I cant that these things myself anymore.
Olaf
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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Brian J King <bjking1@us.ibm.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi: add module alias for ibmvscsic
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:06:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120730190606.GD3155@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343611946.21647.23.camel@pasglop>
On Mon, Jul 30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 18:49 +0200, olaf@aepfle.de wrote:
> > From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> >
> > The driver is named ibmvscsic, at runtime it its name is advertised as
> > ibmvscsi. For this reason mkinitrd wont pickup the driver properly.
> > Reported by IBM during SLES11 beta testing:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459933
> > LTC50724
>
> So while this would work, I do wonder however whether we could instead
> fix it by simplifying the whole thing as follow since iSeries is now
> gone and so we don't need split backends anymore:
>
> scsi/ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction
I cant that these things myself anymore.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-18 16:49 [PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi: add module alias for ibmvscsic olaf
2012-07-18 16:49 ` olaf
2012-07-30 1:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-30 1:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-30 19:06 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-07-30 19:06 ` Olaf Hering
2012-07-31 3:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-31 3:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-31 16:20 ` Brian King
2012-07-31 17:54 ` Robert Jennings
2012-07-31 17:54 ` Robert Jennings
2012-07-31 17:57 ` Robert Jennings
2012-07-31 17:57 ` Robert Jennings
2012-09-07 16:16 ` Robert Jennings
2012-09-07 16:16 ` Robert Jennings
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