Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751071AbWBXQ4y (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:56:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932213AbWBXQ4y (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:56:54 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:63155 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750912AbWBXQ4x (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:56:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:56:47 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alan Cox Cc: erich , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, billion.wu@areca.com.tw, akpm@osdl.org, oliver@neukum.org Subject: Re: Areca RAID driver remaining items? Message-ID: <20060224165647.GA4176@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , erich , Arjan van de Ven , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, billion.wu@areca.com.tw, akpm@osdl.org, oliver@neukum.org References: <1140458552.3495.26.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20060220182045.GA1634@infradead.org> <001401c63779$12e49aa0$b100a8c0@erich2003> <20060222145733.GC16269@infradead.org> <00dc01c63842$381f9a30$b100a8c0@erich2003> <1140683157.2972.6.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <001901c6385e$9aee7d40$b100a8c0@erich2003> <1140695990.19361.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1140695990.19361.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1150 Lines: 26 On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:59:50AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Iau, 2006-02-23 at 17:50 +0800, erich wrote: > > But unfortunately I found some mainboards will hang up if I always enable > > this function in my lab. > > To avoid this issue, I do an option for this case. > > > > But Christoph Hellwig give me comment with it. > > > Another thing you can also do for many of these cases is to use either > the PCI or DMI interfaces to identify the problem board and > automatically set the option as well. > > There are two ways to do this. One is Please avoid that unless really nessecary. I doubt there's boards where MSI would only be broken with the areca card but not with other MSI-capable ones. If a board or chipset is generally broken vs MSI it should be added to the global MSI blacklist. It's probably be nice to have a global nomsi boot option instead of one in every driver aswell.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/