On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 22:22 -0800, Sudhakar Pannerselvam wrote: >> As James mentioned earlier, this is a distribution issue. I had seen >> this issue with redhat. If you observe redhat distro qlogic drivers, >> they compile firmware files along with the driver and hence they >> wouldn't observe this issue when they load through initrd as there is no >> firmware loading procedure through hotplug interface, whereas if you >> compile qlogic driver by hand without inbuilt firmware files and using >> distro's like redhat, you would encounter this issue. This has to be >> addressed in nash hotplug code. > > OK, there is one little wrinkle with Red Hat: nash is a sort of all in > one process and it keeps going wrong. I've opened a few bugs with red > hat about nash over the years with hotplug issues, which this is, but > they always ignore them and then close them when the distro goes end of > life. FYI, RHEL5 had this specific nash issue; but RedHat fixed it, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235277 > These problems should be going away when Dave Jones finally kills off > nash in his initrd/boot system rewrite. Cool, sounds like it will be a nice improvement. Mike -- 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
