Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:15:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810121315190.12175-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <199810121915.MAA07560@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > We're going to put in a mechanism in the next day or two to allow > > specifying SCSI revision in quirk entries. This will allow us to disable > > cache sync, multi-lun probing and serial number inquiries for SCSI-1 > > devices. > > Hmm. Would you consider adding a facility to parse a text-format quirk > description and add it to the compiled-in tables (if unique?). > > If you were to do this, it would be possible to read quirk entries from > a file during the boot phase, decoupling the quirk data from the kernel > code. (This would eg. make it possible to boot/install on a system > which wouldn't run without a quirk entry.) I like this idea. Perhaps a sysctl variant. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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