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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, akpm@osdl.org, ehm@cris.com,
	grif@cs.ucr.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] QLogic ISP2x00: remove needless busyloop
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:11:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040809141155.0c94b8c4.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040809210335.A9711@infradead.org>

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 21:03:35 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> Don't use that driver.  qla2xxx is the right driver, and qlogicfc is only
> still there and confuses people because davem is lazy and can shout louder
> than others.

Let me defend myself.

The qla2xxx driver numbers devices differently than qlogicfc does.

The qla2xxx driver never existed upstream until it was added a few
months ago, and even with that it's 2.6.x only, therefore people
using pure upstream kernels for all of their systems (such as myself)
has only the qlogicfc driver to use.

So it's not how loud I can yell or not, it's that not keeping the
qlogicfc driver around would break people's systems.

You could remove the qlogicfc driver if you really wanted, by providing
a config option that would provide qlogicfc compatible device numbering
in the qla2xxx driver.

So implement that instead of bitching about me trying to keep people's
systems functional, ok? :-)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-09 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-09 18:52 [PATCH] QLogic ISP2x00: remove needless busyloop Bjorn Helgaas
2004-08-09 20:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-09 20:19   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-08-09 20:21     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-09 21:08       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-08-09 21:16         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-09 21:11   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-09 21:15     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-09 21:20       ` David S. Miller
2004-08-09 21:27         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-09 21:16     ` Alan Cox

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