bogus vscsi dt node on iseries

[Stephen Rothwell]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:42:39 +0200 Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:51:21 +0200 Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know why dt_vdevices() creates a vscsi node on legacy iseries?
> > > I'm sure only viodasd and viocd is required as blockdevice type.
> > 
> > Because the IBM vscsi client (in theory) works on legacy iSeries.
> 
> I'm asking because there are many unneeded nodes.
> Have you tried to create only the nodes for disks/cds that are really
> present and modify viodasd to use only device-tree data?

I'll have a look, but that would require interacting with the hypervisor
very early in the boot sequence ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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