On 10/25/17 15:56, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
>> On 26 Oct 2017, at 08:13, Colin Percival wrote:
>> [Proposal for removing hpt* drivers since hpt27xx and hptnr take a long
>> time to in DEVICE_PROBE.]
>
> Seems sensible to me, but also worth contacting the blob authors if
> possible and asking them
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 03:12:57AM +0100, Andrew Turner wrote:
>
> > On 25 Oct 2017, at 22:43, Colin Percival wrote:
> >
> > Hi developers,
> >
> > I'd like to remove the hpt* drivers from GENERIC. These are the drivers
> > for the HighPoint storage hardware -- SATA (hptnr) and RAID (hpt27xx,
> On 25 Oct 2017, at 22:43, Colin Percival wrote:
>
> Hi developers,
>
> I'd like to remove the hpt* drivers from GENERIC. These are the drivers
> for the HighPoint storage hardware -- SATA (hptnr) and RAID (hpt27xx, hptiop,
> hptmv, hptrr).
>
> My reason for wanting to remove them is that th
> On 26 Oct 2017, at 08:13, Colin Percival wrote:
> My reason for wanting to remove them is that the hpt27xx and hptnr drivers
> spend ~150 ms in their DEVICE_PROBE routines every time the system boots.
> Since they are roughly 1000x slower than the median driver, this is clearly
> excessive; unf
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Colin Percival
wrote:
> Hi developers,
>
> I'd like to remove the hpt* drivers from GENERIC. These are the drivers
> for the HighPoint storage hardware -- SATA (hptnr) and RAID (hpt27xx,
> hptiop,
> hptmv, hptrr).
>
> My reason for wanting to remove them is that
Hi developers,
I'd like to remove the hpt* drivers from GENERIC. These are the drivers
for the HighPoint storage hardware -- SATA (hptnr) and RAID (hpt27xx, hptiop,
hptmv, hptrr).
My reason for wanting to remove them is that the hpt27xx and hptnr drivers
spend ~150 ms in their DEVICE_PROBE routi
