On Mar 2, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Mike Anderson wrote:
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This fairly minimal patch correctly attaches the aic94xx driver to
the
SAS transport class (The driver is available from
www.kernel.org/git/jgarzik/sas-2.6
). Unfortunately, the driver itself still has the following critical
issues
1. Discovery order is non-deterministic (it starts one thread per
port,
so the threads race for discovery)
The issue also results in the device discovery not completing by
the time
the module load completes resulting in the initrd not finding the boot
disk
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6045
I agree that we need a solution for this. Should the solution be in
the
LLDDs.I thought previous comments was that we wanted this fixed
outside
the kernel in user space. Though I have not seen any enabled
support in
initrds or support in the initrd bins.
This appears to not only be an issue with aic94xx as it appears
this could
happen with some of the fc transport LLDDs.
It also is a problem for usb-storage devices. I have to use a kernel
parameter of "boot_delay=7" for my USB root device to be available.
Fine for my system, but ugly in general.
--
Mark Rustad, MRustad@xxxxxxx
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