From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269958AbTGWJOf (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:14:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270441AbTGWJOf (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:14:35 -0400 Received: from netix1.demon.co.uk ([212.228.80.161]:14863 "EHLO netunix.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269958AbTGWJOc (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:14:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:35:56 +0100 (BST) From: "C.Newport" To: "David S. Miller" cc: , , , , , Subject: Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot In-Reply-To: <20030723012824.5d8dec9b.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:33:40 +0100 (BST) > "C.Newport" 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 ?.