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Re: SCSI host numbering (patch)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dario_Ballabio)
Sat Feb 14 11:18:04 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 17:14:05 +0100
From: Dario_Ballabio@milano.europe.dg.com (Dario_Ballabio)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl
I'm in favour of a fixed mapping which statically allocates
host numbers in a predictable way and determines the loading order
as well.
For example "scsi_hosts=eata:4,ncr:2,buslogic:3,aic:0,none:2,eata:2"
would cause:
eata beeing loaded first and assigned scsi0 to scsi3;
ncr beeing loaded second and assigned scsi4 to scsi5;
buslogic beeing loaded third and assigned scsi6 to scsi8;
aic beeing skipped even if compiled into the kernel;
scsi9 to scsi10 beeing reserved;
eata beeing loaded (as a module) and assigned scsi11 to scsi12.
This would address the long standing problem of probe order,
provides the required flessibility and seems rather simple
to implement.
- DB
