From: DuanZhenzhong <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: declare MODULE_FIRMWARE in libsas
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:27:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D240129.5080200@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294202192.7879.30.camel@mulgrave.site>
James Bottomley 写道:
> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:18 +0800, DuanZhenzhong wrote:
>
>> Jeff Garzik 写道:
>>
>>> On 01/04/2011 09:08 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:43 +0800, DuanZhenzhong wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan<zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>
>>>> Description? Since libsas has no firmware, surely some explanation is
>>>> required.
>>>>
>>> Indeed. Looks bogus at first glance?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I was finding all requested but not exported firmware in scsi driver for
>> generating dump initrd use.
>> In sas_scsi_host.c, request_firmware is called with "sas_addr", sas_addr
>> neither builtin nor exported. Don't sas_addr a firmware? Please correct
>> me. thanks
>>
>
> No, it's not requesting any firmware ... it's a slight misuse of the
> firmware mechanism that allows a libsas based driver to be given a SAS
> address if it doesn't have an internal nsvram to store one.
>
> James
>
>
>
I see, thanks
--
Regards
zhenzhong
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-05 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-04 7:43 declare MODULE_FIRMWARE in libsas DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-04 14:08 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-04 17:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-05 3:18 ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05 3:18 ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05 4:36 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-05 4:36 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-05 5:27 ` DuanZhenzhong [this message]
2011-01-05 4:47 ` Américo Wang
2011-01-05 4:47 ` Américo Wang
2011-01-05 5:28 ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05 5:42 ` Américo Wang
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