Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 10:07:55 EST

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> At this point, I would prefer that we just leave the ordering alone - I
> don' tknow of any actual problems with it, and I don't think it's worth
> re-organizing things to make it the exact same thing it used to be..

SCSI has real ordering requirements for drivers.

You have to do Buslogic and AHA17xx before AHA15xx or you get a wrong driver
and in the 17xx case data corruption risks
You must do scsi before i2o_scsi or AMI Megaraids break

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