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

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

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