From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:31:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:31:20 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:56836 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:31:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:31:17 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Keith Owens Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: new scsi hardware detection in 2.4.7(pre) Message-ID: <20010730153117.A2142@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010723171019.A18135@suse.de> <22072.995939994@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <22072.995939994@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>; from kaos@ocs.com.au on Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 11:59:54AM +1000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Tue, Jul 24, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:10:19 +0200, > Olaf Hering wrote: > >I get this on non-scsi systems with scsi compiled into the kernel: > > > >SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > >request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted > >request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted > >request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted > > The SCSI midlayer is trying to load the SCSI host adapter, that is an > unavoidable side effect of including SCSI support. Because no adapter > is found, kmod tries to automatically load a module that can find a > host adapter. The "Root fs not mounted" message occurs when you try to > load any module before / is mounted. Does that make any sense? I mean, there are some scsi drivers, none of them found a valid device, why do we look for more drivers? It would make sense if there are no low level device drivers in the kernel binary. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...