>On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 01:41 -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: >> You mean, you want to allow both drivers to be built and >loaded together, >> even though they have overlapping ids?! > >You're not thinking like a distribution. They want to build one kernel >for almost every configuration. There are a few things (SMP, bigmem >etc) that they're willing to build extra kernels for, but not, I think, >for old vs new megaraid. Thus they have to patch this up to build the >two modules. By and large, the overlapping ID business is >sorted out by >the installer, although having disjoint IDs is good since the installer >doesn't have to make a choice. > >Can you get this sorted out before 2.6.15, please (so if I believe >Linus, that's about five weeks)? > >Thanks, > >James Yes. I understood now. Thanks for explaining. We will get this in before 2.6.15. Hopefully much sooner. Regards, Sreenivas - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
