[PATCH] scsi/ibmvscsi: add module alias for ibmvscsic

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Tue Jul 31 05:06:06 EST 2012


On Mon, Jul 30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 18:49 +0200, olaf at aepfle.de wrote:
> > From: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
> > 
> > The driver is named ibmvscsic, at runtime it its name is advertised as
> > ibmvscsi. For this reason mkinitrd wont pickup the driver properly.
> > Reported by IBM during SLES11 beta testing:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459933
> > LTC50724
> 
> So while this would work, I do wonder however whether we could instead
> fix it by simplifying the whole thing as follow since iSeries is now
> gone and so we don't need split backends anymore:
> 
> scsi/ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction

I cant that these things myself anymore.

Olaf


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