Re: BOGUS: megaraid changes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
10 Nov 2002 17:08:49 +0000


On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 16:32, J.E.J. Bottomley wrote:
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > I dont think panic() is needed bug a loud printk and maybe an error
> > return from scsi_register() would do the trick. We do however have a
> > couple of drivers where "pray, the firmware does all the work" is the
> > right answer, but they really should be setting their own handler that
> > delays rather than aborting/resetting/kicking offline
>
> How about this? It doesn't panic, just refuses to attach the driver (although
> this will still eventually cause a panic if your root fs is on it).

Looks a good starting point so that people can use the drivers but do
get warned

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