linux-kernel - Re: Major qla2xxx regression on sparc64

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Message-ID: <20070418172802.GD12708@andrew-vasquezs-computer.local>
Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:28:02 -0700
From:	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@...gic.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@...elEye.com,
	ema@...ian.org
Subject: Re: Major qla2xxx regression on sparc64

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...

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