From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7[9x]xx: Remove last vestiges of reverse_scan
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:11:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B219DE.2080107@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060708200226.GG1605@parisc-linux.org>
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Remove last vestiges of the reverse_scan paramater from aic7xxx and aic79xx.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
>
> Index: ./drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.23
> diff -u -p -r1.23 aic79xx_osm.c
> --- ./drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c 6 Jul 2006 12:23:21 -0000 1.23
> +++ ./drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c 8 Jul 2006 20:00:31 -0000
> @@ -243,25 +243,6 @@ ahd_print_path(struct ahd_softc *ahd, st
> static uint32_t aic79xx_no_reset;
>
> /*
> - * Certain PCI motherboards will scan PCI devices from highest to lowest,
> - * others scan from lowest to highest, and they tend to do all kinds of
> - * strange things when they come into contact with PCI bridge chips. The
> - * net result of all this is that the PCI card that is actually used to boot
> - * the machine is very hard to detect. Most motherboards go from lowest
> - * PCI slot number to highest, and the first SCSI controller found is the
> - * one you boot from. The only exceptions to this are when a controller
> - * has its BIOS disabled. So, we by default sort all of our SCSI controllers
> - * from lowest PCI slot number to highest PCI slot number. We also force
> - * all controllers with their BIOS disabled to the end of the list. This
> - * works on *almost* all computers. Where it doesn't work, we have this
> - * option. Setting this option to non-0 will reverse the order of the sort
> - * to highest first, then lowest, but will still leave cards with their BIOS
> - * disabled at the very end. That should fix everyone up unless there are
> - * really strange cirumstances.
> - */
> -static uint32_t aic79xx_reverse_scan;
> -
> -/*
> * Should we force EXTENDED translation on a controller.
> * 0 == Use whatever is in the SEEPROM or default to off
> * 1 == Use whatever is in the SEEPROM or default to on
> @@ -350,7 +331,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(aic79xx,
> " periodically to prevent tag starvation.\n"
> " This may be required by some older disk\n"
> " or drives/RAID arrays.\n"
> -" reverse_scan Sort PCI devices highest Bus/Slot to lowest\n"
> " tag_info:<tag_str> Set per-target tag depth\n"
> " global_tag_depth:<int> Global tag depth for all targets on all buses\n"
> " slewrate:<slewrate_list>Set the signal slew rate (0-15).\n"
> @@ -1031,7 +1011,6 @@ aic79xx_setup(char *s)
> #ifdef AHD_DEBUG
> { "debug", &ahd_debug },
> #endif
> - { "reverse_scan", &aic79xx_reverse_scan },
> { "periodic_otag", &aic79xx_periodic_otag },
> { "pci_parity", &aic79xx_pci_parity },
> { "seltime", &aic79xx_seltime },
> Index: ./drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.24
> diff -u -p -r1.24 aic7xxx_osm.c
> --- ./drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c 6 Jul 2006 12:23:21 -0000 1.24
> +++ ./drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c 8 Jul 2006 20:00:31 -0000
> @@ -353,7 +353,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(aic7xxx,
> " periodically to prevent tag starvation.\n"
> " This may be required by some older disk\n"
> " drives or RAID arrays.\n"
> -" reverse_scan Sort PCI devices highest Bus/Slot to lowest\n"
> " tag_info:<tag_str> Set per-target tag depth\n"
> " global_tag_depth:<int> Global tag depth for every target\n"
> " on every bus\n"
> -
Signed-off-by: Hannes-Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cheers,
Hannes
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2006-07-08 20:02 [PATCH] aic7[9x]xx: Remove last vestiges of reverse_scan Matthew Wilcox
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