Re: declare MODULE_FIRMWARE in libsas

[DuanZhenzhong]

James Bottomley åé:
> On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:18 +0800, DuanZhenzhong wrote:
>   
> > Jeff Garzik åé:
> >     
> > > On 01/04/2011 09:08 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > >       
> > > > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:43 +0800, DuanZhenzhong wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan<zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > ---
> > > > >           
> > > > Description?  Since libsas has no firmware, surely some explanation is
> > > > required.
> > > >         
> > > Indeed.  Looks bogus at first glance?
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> > I was finding all requested but not exported firmware in scsi driver for 
> > generating dump initrd use.
> > In sas_scsi_host.c, request_firmware is called with "sas_addr", sas_addr 
> > neither builtin nor exported. Don't sas_addr a firmware? Please correct 
> > me. thanks
> >     
>
> No, it's not requesting any firmware ... it's a slight misuse of the
> firmware mechanism that allows a libsas based driver to be given a SAS
> address if it doesn't have an internal nsvram to store one.
>
> James
>
>
>   
I see, thanks

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Regards
zhenzhong

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