Re: [PATCH] lpfc : add module parameter that allows adapter instances to avoid attachment

[James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>]

The oem requirement we have explicitly states not to use the unbind interface
(we proposed unbind at first as well).

The issue is what happens on the link while we are bound for that short
amount of time. It confuses the things on the other side of the link.
There's a secondary driver that ends up binding to the adapters we exclude,
and the things on the other side only expected to see the second driver.

-- james s


James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 15:55 -0400, James Smart wrote:
>> This patch adds a module parameter that supplies a text string containing a
>> list of PCI <bus>:<slot>.<func> values to identify adapter instances that
>> should *not* be attached to by the driver.
>>
>> -- james s
>>
>>
>>  Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
> 
> Is there a reason why you can't just use the generic unbind interface?
> 
> James
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