Re: new scsi hardware detection in 2.4.7(pre)

[majordomo kernel]

It makes more sense if U can send a copy to SCSI group
too.People like Eric and many others only looks at the
linux-scsi group.I think by doing this U can cater to
a wider group of people and more specifically this
sort
of issues are relavant to both -kernel and scsi group.
I hope and expect that in future this will be taken
care of.
Thanx
--- Keith Owens <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:31:17 +0200, 
> Olaf Hering <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 24, Keith Owens wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:10:19 +0200, 
> >> Olaf Hering <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >> >I get this on non-scsi systems with scsi
> compiled into the kernel:
> >> >
> >> >SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> >> >request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not
> mounted
> >> >request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not
> mounted
> >> >request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not
> mounted
> >> 
> >> The SCSI midlayer is trying to load the SCSI host
> adapter, that is an
> >> unavoidable side effect of including SCSI
> support.  Because no adapter
> >> is found, kmod tries to automatically load a
> module that can find a
> >> host adapter.  The "Root fs not mounted" message
> occurs when you try to
> >> load any module before / is mounted.
> >
> >Does that make any sense? I mean, there are some
> scsi drivers, none of
> >them found a valid device, why do we look for more
> drivers? It would
> >make sense if there are no low level device drivers
> in the kernel
> >binary.
> 
> There is no way for the mid layer to distinguish
> between "no SCSI card
> configured into kernel" and "SCSI card configured
> but failed to detect
> hardware".  Even when there is a card built into the
> kernel, it still
> makes sense to scan for modules if the initial card
> failed.  That gives
> you fallback to modules when you change your
> hardware.
> 
> If you boot a SCSI kernel on a non-SCSI box then you
> should alias
> scsi_hostadapter off.  You still get the 'Root fs
> not mounted' warning
> messages, just ignore them.  If you are using one
> kernel build for lots
> of different hardware you should be using initrd,
> then the root fs
> messages go away as well.
> 
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