Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

From: C.Newport (crn@netunix.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 04:35:56 EST


On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, David S. Miller wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:33:40 +0100 (BST)
> "C.Newport" <crn@netunix.com> wrote:
>
> > Ouch - As I mentioned a few days ago, the Ex000 range can have a
> > mixture of SBUS and PCI.
>
> So what?
>
> > This configuration is becoming increasingly
> > common as these machines are upgraded to attach to SAN stuff and
> > other FCAL variants for which there is no SBUS card.
>
> Nothing I have said prevents these systems from fully
> working.
>
> Because I won't move SBUS over to generic struct device,
> none of the SBUS device drivers will change either, therefore
> everything works as it does today.
>
> What's the problem?

In that case none, but your original message implied that this did
not exist and would not be supported.

Maybe I misunderstood what you meant.

OTOH, (if !SBUS) might screw up ?.

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