On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 15:11 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:09:06 -0400 > > > For the record, what the current in-kernel aic94xx driver does for this > > case is allow a parameter override to specify the WWN in the case where > > the card burned in one has gone missing or is corrupt. I think this is > > the correctly balanced approach to the problem. > > Let's then provide a global and consistent knob for the user to set in > this situation, instead of a different one per-driver. Agreed; we can shift the parameter to the transport class so it's consistent for all SAS drivers > auto_wwn=1 or somthing like that I'd far prefer override_wwn = <fully specific WWN> since I assume auto_wwn means get the kernel to generate one? James - 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
