From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luben Tuikov Subject: Re: [rant] can we get asane ic7xxx/79xx probing _please_ Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:46:14 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <413F0D26.5020601@adaptec.com> References: <20040906182402.GA25103@lst.de> <413F01C3.9020202@adaptec.com> <1094649419.2800.12.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from magic.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.17]:15271 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268328AbUIHNqV (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:46:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1094649419.2800.12.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: arjanv@redhat.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:57, Luben Tuikov wrote: > >>Hi Christoph, >> >>Thanks for bringing this up. I do have Andi's patch in the pending list, >>and would like to apply it to the newer version of the driver. >> >>I should mention that while the newer drivers do not quite have >>the PCI tables as presented in Andi's patch, they do check the return >>value of pci_module_init() and return the appropriate result. > > > please please please provide linux compliant MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE's. > Operating system hardware probing apps *require* those for device > probing; right now there are very ugly hacks especially for aic7xxx that > should go away. > Yes Arjan, I agree. Luben