linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] firs round of SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.29-rc1

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Message-Id: <1234356139.3295.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:42:19 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] firs round of SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.29-rc1

On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 21:08 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 09:56:11AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > >       mpt fusion: Add separate msi enable disable for FC,SPI,SAS
> > 
> > I thought we rejected this one as being completely bogus?  I certainly
> > don't remember seeing even an excuse for it after I challenged it.
> 
> ... no response?

>>From whom?  It's no less bogus than what they were doing previously.  I
happen to think the whole idea of drivers chosing msi/not msi by
parameters is bogus ... we just don't have a good platform way of
sorting it out at the moment.  In that absence, the driver maintainer
gets to fix up.

James


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