Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 12/15/09 18:30, Wolfgang Mauerer wrote: >> Hi Gerd, >> >> in commit 5b684b5a56e81f6f, you introduced an explicit check >> to prevent adding SCSI controllers without attached disks >> to the system. > > There was a patch from Daniel removing that check, isn't that one merged > meanwhile? Hmm, looks like it isn't. > > Your patch does more than just killing the check, especially the chunk > in lsi53c895a.c is clearly wrong. I'd prefer Daniels patch being merged > instead.
after sending the patch, Daniel told me that he had already sent one, and I don't care which one you merge as long as I can add empty contollers again ;-) > >> Is there any other method to introduce >> disk-less controllers into the system? > > device_add lsi,id=<hba-name>,addr=<slot.func> > > adding disks then: > > drive_add unused if=none,id=<disk-name>,file=... > device_add scsi-disk,drive=<disk-name>,bus=<hba-name>.0,scsi-id=<nr> > > Note that this is the only way you can expect to work reliable with more > than one scsi adapter being present in the system. Thanks! Cheers, Wolfgang
