linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.25

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Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:14:47 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI updates for 2.6.25

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 05:27:56PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > Not true. That's why we have initrd and ramdisks etc.
> 
> They don't currently seem to work for compiled in drivers ... we have
> the same issue with drivers that actually need firmware (like aic94xx or
> qla2xxx): no-one seems to have figured out how to provide it for them;
> it seems the device is already initialised and has failed to find its
> firmware before the initrd/initramfs is running.

WorksForMe ... or it did a few months ago.  I can re-test it with a
modern kernel ... wonder which machine I had that needed it ...

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