On Maw, 2006-07-25 at 10:26 +0100, hch wrote: > We have more than enough precedence for poking the bridge that comes as > part of addon cards. As long as the code makes sure it never pokes a bridge > of the same type that is not on the card (and I don't have the code in front > of me right now to check whether it's true) we can keep this code. Please > make sure to add a big comment that explains what is going on in detail > and why it's okay in this special case. It does check the basic layout so looks robust. Checking subvendor stuff is normally a good back-up. We do similar plumbing work in the Promise IDE and I2O code to handle the old SuperTrak/SX6000 cards and it work solidly. Alan - : 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
