Re: Major qla2xxx regression on sparc64

Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-18T17:28:07Z

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> I don't think a module option is a good idea at this point. The problem
> is you broke some so far perfectly working setups, which is not okay.
> The only first step can be printing a really big warning. After this
> has been in for a while (at lest half a year) we can make it a non-default
> option or turn if off completely in case the warning never triggered in
> practice.
>
> The only resonable thing for 2.6.21 is to put in David's patch, possible
> with an even more drastic warning when the rom is invalid and there's
> no prom-fallback available.
>
> Note that I expect Sun put in the invalid ROM intentionally, as we have
> similar cases with other cards that have totally messed up ROMs in
> Sun-branded versions. Personally I think that's an utterly bad decision
> from Sun's side, but we'll have to live with this.

Fine. I'll rework an alternate patch for the 2.6.22 timeframe...