From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964959AbWFZJJR (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:09:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964951AbWFZJJR (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:09:17 -0400 Received: from koto.vergenet.net ([210.128.90.7]:27320 "EHLO koto.vergenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751310AbWFZJJQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:09:16 -0400 From: Horms To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Andrew Morton , Neela.Kolli@engenio.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mike.miller@hp.com, fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Zou, Nanhai" Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization?issue fix In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: gmane.comp.boot-loaders.fastboot.general,gmane.linux.scsi,gmane.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.16-2-686 (i686)) Message-Id: <20060626090915.CA8333402A@koto.vergenet.net> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:09:15 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article you wrote: > > Not all pci busses support it but there is a standard pci bus reset bit > in pci bridges. > > I don't know if it would help but it might make sense to have a config > option that can be used to mark drivers that are known to have problems, > in these scenarios. > > CONFIG_BRITTLE_INIT perhaps? > > It would at least make it easier for people to see which drivers > they don't want to use, and give people some incentive to fix things. I believe that MPT Fusion could go on that list. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ia64/14451 -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/