From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
To: DuanZhenzhong <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: declare MODULE_FIRMWARE in libsas
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:36:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1294202192.7879.30.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D23E315.9060900@oracle.com>
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:18 +0800, DuanZhenzhong wrote:
> Jeff Garzik 写道:
> > On 01/04/2011 09:08 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:43 +0800, DuanZhenzhong wrote:
> >>> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan<zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>
> >> Description? Since libsas has no firmware, surely some explanation is
> >> required.
> >
> > Indeed. Looks bogus at first glance?
> >
> >
> I was finding all requested but not exported firmware in scsi driver for
> generating dump initrd use.
> In sas_scsi_host.c, request_firmware is called with "sas_addr", sas_addr
> neither builtin nor exported. Don't sas_addr a firmware? Please correct
> me. thanks
No, it's not requesting any firmware ... it's a slight misuse of the
firmware mechanism that allows a libsas based driver to be given a SAS
address if it doesn't have an internal nsvram to store one.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-05 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-04 7:43 declare MODULE_FIRMWARE in libsas DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-04 14:08 ` James Bottomley
2011-01-04 17:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-01-05 3:18 ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05 4:36 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2011-01-05 5:27 ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05 4:47 ` Américo Wang
2011-01-05 5:28 ` DuanZhenzhong
2011-01-05 5:42 ` Américo Wang
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