Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: megaraid driver (proposed patch) | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:04:37 -0600 |
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On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 18:47 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:39:52PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 19:22 +0100, Bruno Cornec wrote: > > > Would you consider to apply the following patch proposed by Thierry > > > Vignaud as a solution for the MandrakeSoft kernel in the mainstream 2.6 > > > kernel ? > > > > Well, to be considered you'd need to cc the megaraid maintainers and the > > linux-scsi mailing list. > > > > > -if MEGARAID_NEWGEN=n > > > > No, this is wrong it would break allyes configs and I'd get shot. > > Why? The megaraid drivers shouldn't have any conflicting non-static > symbols
You get a kernel with two drivers trying to claim some of the same set of cards. The winner will be the driver that gets its init routines called first, but this isn't a desirable outcome.
I wouldn't object to a patch that allows both *modules* to be built, which is all I think the distros are after.
James
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