From: Andrew Vasquez <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:28:02 -0700
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > I don't think a module option is a good idea at this point. The problem
> > is you broke some so far perfectly working setups, which is not okay.
> > The only first step can be printing a really big warning. After this
> > has been in for a while (at lest half a year) we can make it a non-default
> > option or turn if off completely in case the warning never triggered in
> > practice.
> >
> > The only resonable thing for 2.6.21 is to put in David's patch, possible
> > with an even more drastic warning when the rom is invalid and there's
> > no prom-fallback available.
> >
> > Note that I expect Sun put in the invalid ROM intentionally, as we have
> > similar cases with other cards that have totally messed up ROMs in
> > Sun-branded versions. Personally I think that's an utterly bad decision
> > from Sun's side, but we'll have to live with this.
>
> Fine. I'll rework an alternate patch for the 2.6.22 timeframe...
We need to fix things now for 2.6.21 and the 2.6.x -stable branches
because users have unusable systems currently.
If it's just a time issue I can work on and push the patch, especially
since I have the means to test things here.
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