Re: pulling failover out of qla2xxx

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> I'll open up a request-for-response from the rest of the listers in
> asking if parceling out qlaAB00.ko modules based on firmware types is
> both practical and sensible from a user standpoint.  Especially
> considering that many users aren't really concerned with the ISP chip
> type on their QLAXXXX or OEM-BRANDED ABC host bus adapter.


Speaking from a generic driver / distro standpoint, module dependencies 
and PCI tables (i.e. pci_device_id and MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE) all things 
to magically Just Work :)

I heartily encourage the creation of "library modules", which are loaded 
automatically as dependencies when one issues a 'modprobe qla2345' 
Distributions have tools that will notice PCI id tables in the 
small/firmware modules, and will load qla2345.ko.  But the tools will 
also notice the dependent module qla2xxx.ko (or whatever the generic one 
is).  Heck, if there is HBA-chip-specific code in qla2xxx, move that out 
to the specific driver's module too.

	Jeff