From: Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:08:48 -0700 (PDT) > Your "want to get their card working" way of view is very > simplistic to justify generating and assigning SAS WWN in the kernel. > This is the job of the manufacturer/packager, not the host OS. When you are thousands of miles away from the data center and lose all of your storage and therefore can't boot correctly because the WWN info is corrupted, you won't have this unbelievably fascist attitude about this problem. Give people an _OPTION_! This is about as anti-social as when the Intel folks refused to themselves put in a driver option to try to use an eepro100 card even if the EEPROM was corrupted and had a bad checksum. For the person who hits this, it's a big issue to have a way to still try to bring things up. If you don't provide this, you want people to suffer more than necessary when something goes wrong, and that by definition makes you an asshole. - 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
