On 12/14/2016 10:06 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 12:30:43PM -0800, Himanshu Madhani wrote: >> From: Quinn Tran <quinn.t...@cavium.com> >> >> This patch adds capability to poll for an interrupt, If hardware >> does not generate any interrupt for 2 seconds. > > This description sounds like the hardware might be buggy and not > generate interrupts, in which case 2 seconds is a very long time. > > Can you explain the intention a bit better?
In addition to Christoph's question: is this a workaround for a hardware bug or for a firmware bug? If it is a workaround for a firmware bug, since the qla2xxx firmware can be upgraded, why is an interrupt polling mechanism added to the kernel driver instead of fixing the firmware? Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
