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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:15:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_da.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810121315190.12175-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199810121915.MAA07560@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > We're going to put in a mechanism in the next day or two to allow
> > specifying SCSI revision in quirk entries.  This will allow us to disable
> > cache sync, multi-lun probing and serial number inquiries for SCSI-1
> > devices.
> 
> Hmm.  Would you consider adding a facility to parse a text-format quirk 
> description and add it to the compiled-in tables (if unique?).
> 
> If you were to do this, it would be possible to read quirk entries from 
> a file during the boot phase, decoupling the quirk data from the kernel 
> code.  (This would eg. make it possible to boot/install on a system 
> which wouldn't run without a quirk entry.)

I like this idea. Perhaps a sysctl variant.



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