From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4). Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:12:02 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030718121202.GC6520@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20030718122304.A23013@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ" Return-path: Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:16617 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271616AbTGRL5s (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:57:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030718122304.A23013@infradead.org> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Vasquez , Linux-Kernel , Linux-SCSI --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003-07-18T12:23:04, Christoph Hellwig said: > - the driver still has multipath support in the lowlevel driver which > we don't want in Linux Fully agreed. Please come and attend the multipath session at the Kernel Summit and/or the Ottawa Linux Symposium next week to learn why this is a bad idea and how it can be done better -> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/ However, for backwards compatibility with 2.4, I assume it might still be needed in 2.5/2.6, but _only_ with the clear intend of phasing it out within 2.6 and dropping it in 2.7. QLogic is reasonably good already in that it can be disabled via a module parameter (ql2xfailover=3D0), allowing the higher level solutions to operate. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG =20 "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/F+QSudf3XQV4S2cRAnaMAJ9iiRlEjGxYhHHd5L/Avm0gvrLyfwCfdtnn NP5s+1mqfZjWlx248F6Jrbw= =sB0m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ--