I agree with Mark .. from everything I've read in these threads and documentation - the 'safest' course is to not specify the portname - and there is no downside to not specifying it but can be to having it specified -- so have the driver ignore any configuration that attempts to specify it. Then remove it from distro doc and config panels. As long as you 'can' use the driver to update it... I don't see the why the distros should 'hide' it or try to explain you should really leave this parm alone when the driver fully supports updating it. This one's on IBM to deal with first, imho. Let's make our driver eliminate future failure/confusion. I'm sure there are arguments for providing 'full functionality' - but I prefer we keep the foot wound safety on until someone can provide a meaningful use for this field someday if ever.
Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: > >>> On 6/18/2015 at 10:56 AM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> > wrote: > > Ummm..... I wouldn't do that. I simply want the documentation to > > disappear and any distro-provided configuration panels to remove it. If > > someone already has it, accept it, warn that it is being ignored, and > > Whereas I would prefer to have the entire concept vanish. If something > can only cause problems/confusion, there's no up side to keeping it. > > > ignore it. I don't want failures because someone specifies the portname. > > And it is still an attribute of the OSA, even if Linux isn't using it. > > There wouldn't be any failures if someone provides a portname in a > parmfile, for instance. The installer would ignore it as would the > kernel. As for being "an attribute of the OSA" I'm sure there are _plenty_ > of other attributes that exist that people outside of IBM don't even know > about. If we can safely ignore those, then we can safely ignore this one. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
