From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.25
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:14:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080419231446.GR20637@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208644076.3280.54.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 05:27:56PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > Not true. That's why we have initrd and ramdisks etc.
>
> They don't currently seem to work for compiled in drivers ... we have
> the same issue with drivers that actually need firmware (like aic94xx or
> qla2xxx): no-one seems to have figured out how to provide it for them;
> it seems the device is already initialised and has failed to find its
> firmware before the initrd/initramfs is running.
WorksForMe ... or it did a few months ago. I can re-test it with a
modern kernel ... wonder which machine I had that needed it ...
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-19 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-18 17:41 [GIT PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.25 James Bottomley
2008-04-19 15:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-19 15:54 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-19 16:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-19 17:05 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-19 17:34 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-19 20:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-19 20:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-20 14:09 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-20 19:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-20 20:14 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-28 21:00 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-28 21:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-19 22:27 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-19 23:14 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-04-21 12:51 ` Ingo Molnar
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