From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: broken reverse_scan in aic7xxx Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 09:44:49 -0600 Message-ID: <20060708154449.GE1605@parisc-linux.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:31442 "EHLO palinux.external.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964873AbWGHPou (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:44:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Stephan Seidl Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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.