Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:12:02 +0200 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4). |
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On 2003-07-18T12:23:04, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said:
> - the driver still has multipath support in the lowlevel driver which > we don't want in Linux
Fully agreed.
Please come and attend the multipath session at the Kernel Summit and/or the Ottawa Linux Symposium next week to learn why this is a bad idea and how it can be done better -> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/
However, for backwards compatibility with 2.4, I assume it might still be needed in 2.5/2.6, but _only_ with the clear intend of phasing it out within 2.6 and dropping it in 2.7.
QLogic is reasonably good already in that it can be disabled via a module parameter (ql2xfailover=0), allowing the higher level solutions to operate.
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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