Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] - Fusion-MPT much faster as module | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:05:23 -0600 |
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On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:40 -0700, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > History on this: > Between the 3.01.16 and 3.01.18, we introduced new method > to passing command line options to the driver. Some of the > command line options are used for fine tuning dv(domain > validation) in the driver. By accident, these command line options were > wrapped around #ifdef MODULE in the 3.01.18 version of the driver. > What this meant is when the driver is compiled built-in the kernel, > the optimal settings for dv were ignored, thus poor performance.
OK, I'll add this to the queue.
Could I just point out that if your driver actually printed the results of negotiation, this would have been an awful lot easier to debug.
Additionally, if you used the SPI transport class domain validation, the issue wouldn't have arisen in the first place.
James
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