Re: [PATCH] aic94xx: Use request_firmware() to provide SAS address if the adapter lacks one

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:48:32PM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:

> So how about factoring that out to a transport-level interface.  How
> about something along the lines of the following patch, whereby the
> software driver upon detecting no valid WWPN, makes an upcall to each
> interface's 'request_wwn()'.  The data passed in from shost_gendev
> should be enough for some helper script to cull relevent device bits
> and perhaps offer some level of persistence...  Off base?

Hrm... jejb made a remark that it might be better to pass the
scsi_host's device into request_firmware() as your example does, so I'll
pitch in a patch to do likewise with libsas--the scsi_host knows the
actual device it's coming from, and userland can sort that all out later
anyway via DEVPATH.

I suppose one could also have multiple scsi_hosts per PCI device, which
means that my first patch would stumble horribly in more than a few
cases.

> Darrick, forgive the FC example, I don't do SAS...

That's ok, I don't do FC. :)  Looks mostly good to me...

--D
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