On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I don't think a module option is a good idea at this point. The problem > is you broke some so far perfectly working setups, which is not okay. > The only first step can be printing a really big warning. After this > has been in for a while (at lest half a year) we can make it a non-default > option or turn if off completely in case the warning never triggered in > practice. > > The only resonable thing for 2.6.21 is to put in David's patch, possible > with an even more drastic warning when the rom is invalid and there's > no prom-fallback available. > > Note that I expect Sun put in the invalid ROM intentionally, as we have > similar cases with other cards that have totally messed up ROMs in > Sun-branded versions. Personally I think that's an utterly bad decision > from Sun's side, but we'll have to live with this. Fine. I'll rework an alternate patch for the 2.6.22 timeframe... - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
