ips.ko load sequence

[Nate Lawson]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Richard Puga wrote:
> I have the ips driver working with the IBM ServerRaid 5i. However it
> only works if I boot off an IDE drive and load the driver after the
> kernel is loaded.
>
> What I believe the problem to be is the fact that this "Raid" card is
> just an add in card to a modified PCI slot  that makes the on board LSI
> dual channel controller into a RAID, and something in the kernel is
> loading (not the LSI driver its been taken out) which makes these 2
> separate devices act as one through the PCI bus and is the reason the
> ips.ko driver can only be loaded after booting.
>
> I believe a quick and dirty fix for this may be to load the ips.ko
> module after the kernel has booted and before init mounts /.
>
> Is there a way to do this via something in /boot/loader (the standard
> way in loader.conf loads it too soon) or perhaps a way to compile isp
> into the kernel in a way that it would be probed at a later time or in a
> different sequence or to make the kernel load the module right before
> ffs_mountroofs?

Perhaps a better way is to split the driver probe and attach routines and
run the latter at lowest startup priority so it runs right before the
disk probe.

-Nate