Re: generating a Linux WWN?

David Miller
2007-10-05T22:11:33Z

From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:09:06 -0400

> For the record, what the current in-kernel aic94xx driver does for this
> case is allow a parameter override to specify the WWN in the case where
> the card burned in one has gone missing or is corrupt. I think this is
> the correctly balanced approach to the problem.

Let's then provide a global and consistent knob for the user to set in
this situation, instead of a different one per-driver.

auto_wwn=1 or somthing like that