From: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, ema@debian.org
Subject: Re: Major qla2xxx regression on sparc64
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:28:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070418172802.GD12708@andrew-vasquezs-computer.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070418171346.GA16471@infradead.org>
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...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-18 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-16 8:02 Major qla2xxx regression on sparc64 David Miller
2007-04-16 16:37 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-16 19:37 ` David Miller
2007-04-16 19:59 ` David Miller
2007-04-16 20:08 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-16 21:10 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-16 22:08 ` David Miller
2007-04-16 22:25 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-16 22:29 ` David Miller
2007-04-16 23:28 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-16 23:41 ` David Miller
2007-04-16 23:47 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-17 0:05 ` David Miller
2007-04-17 2:41 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-17 5:02 ` David Miller
2007-04-17 18:28 ` Seokmann Ju
2007-04-17 18:56 ` David Miller
2007-04-18 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-18 20:12 ` David Miller
2007-04-18 17:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-18 17:28 ` Andrew Vasquez [this message]
2007-04-18 20:13 ` David Miller
2007-04-19 17:15 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-04-18 20:10 ` David Miller
2007-04-22 14:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
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