From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Stephan Seidl <stephan.seidl@tu-dresden.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: broken reverse_scan in aic7xxx
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 09:44:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060708154449.GE1605@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.1060708171547.28320A-100000@rcs52.urz.tu-dresden.de>
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 05:21:59PM +0200, Stephan Seidl wrote:
> A victim of the cleaning operation is the option `aic7xxx=reverse_scan'
> which is still documented, but, which does no longer work. Here is some
> output.
>
> Since `aic7xxx=reverse_scan' is part of my disaster recovery concept,
> I would like to ask whether anybody has the resources to reactivate
> this driver option as it was before ?
The documentation should be removed ;-)
It's a simple choice between reverse_scan and supporting PCI hotplug.
You can't have both, and we chose the latter. The same choice has been
made in virtually every other device driver.
I'm afraid you're going to have to change your concept.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-08 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-08 15:21 broken reverse_scan in aic7xxx Stephan Seidl
2006-07-08 15:44 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-07-08 17:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-07-08 18:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-09 1:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-09 8:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-09 12:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
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