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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Brian J King <bjking1@us.ibm.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi: add module alias for ibmvscsic
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:06:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120730190606.GD3155@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343611946.21647.23.camel@pasglop>

On Mon, Jul 30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 18:49 +0200, olaf@aepfle.de wrote:
> > From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> > 
> > The driver is named ibmvscsic, at runtime it its name is advertised as
> > ibmvscsi. For this reason mkinitrd wont pickup the driver properly.
> > Reported by IBM during SLES11 beta testing:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459933
> > LTC50724
> 
> So while this would work, I do wonder however whether we could instead
> fix it by simplifying the whole thing as follow since iSeries is now
> gone and so we don't need split backends anymore:
> 
> scsi/ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction

I cant that these things myself anymore.

Olaf

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-30 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-18 16:49 [PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi: add module alias for ibmvscsic olaf
2012-07-30  1:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-30 19:06   ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-07-31  3:08     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-31 16:20       ` Brian King
2012-07-31 17:54         ` Robert Jennings
2012-07-31 17:57         ` Robert Jennings
2012-09-07 16:16   ` Robert Jennings

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