RE: [patch 6/8] mptfusion: fc transport

James Bottomley
2004-12-06T17:21:01Z

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:12, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> Our concern is the impact to linux distributions installers and
> end users that upgrade to these newer drivers.
> Example: Someone having older driver using boot device attached
> to our controller. Then they download a newer kernel from Kernel.org with
> newer
> drivers having mptfc. They mkinitrd, or mk_initrd (without modifing
> linuxrc),
> reboot then what? Can they see the boot partition?

That's a concern only for people who boot from your fibre adapters. How
many such users are there?

> Can we change the time when LLDs register themselves to the
> transport layer? Like from the probe routine.

Well, not really, unless you have a proposal to get around the
fundamental problem Christoph already pointed out: any reference to the
fc_ transport methods will automatically cause modprobe to load it
regardless of whether it is used.

James