Re: [SUBJECT CHANGE]: megaraid unified driver version 2.20.0.0-al pha1

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Mukker, Atul wrote:
> With multiple adapters, applications would need to open multiple handles.
> This would somewhat complicate things for them. But keeping in line with
> general expectations, we would fork the drivers for different class of
> controllers now.

"opening multiple handles" is preferred.  You want one discrete object 
per controller or per device, depending on the object in question.


> I have not yet gotten strong feelings against a single driver for lk 2.4 and
> lk 2.6. If this is true, we would like to keep single driver for both
> kernels - since lk 2.4 still has a big lifecycle.

If you are doing multiple drivers in 2.6, it would seem better to match 
that as closely as possible in 2.4.


> For lk 2.6, the controllers would be detected PCI ordered and because of
> existing lk 2.4 setups, driver would re-order the registration based on boot
> controller.

Look at my libata code -- in both 2.4 and 2.6, it uses the proper PCI 
API calls.

Controller order is irrelevant -- device order is what you really care 
about, right?  This can be managed by creating a list during probe, and 
then executing the list after all controllers have been probed. 
Obviously, this excludes hotplug controllers added after the initial 
module_init() function exits.

	Jeff