From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Stephan Seidl <stephan.seidl@tu-dresden.de>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: broken reverse_scan in aic7xxx
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:48:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060708174844.GB29602@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060708154449.GE1605@parisc-linux.org>
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 09:44:49AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.
Or you could submit a patch to implement a reverse scanning option in
the core PCI code..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-08 17:48 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
2006-07-08 17:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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