On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:35:41PM -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote: > Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] writes: > > > Provide more accurate adapter information. > > so what information is this going to print now? do you have > > an example? > > This change empowers the Firmware. > > This allows the Adapter Firmware to override the Adapter product > information. The information before this modification was table driven > by the PCI Product ID. > > In some cases the change is merely for OEMization (IBM 8i or ADAPTEC > 4005SAS), in other cases we have the 'family' match that permits the > driver to attach to all future adapters, and without this change the > Adapter would be designated the mundane name of "ADAPTEC RAID" rather > than the name that the Firmware reports. Ok, makes sense. Can we now get rid of the huge table of product names in linit.c? - : 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
