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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mptlan: add checks for dma mapping errors
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:23:41 -0800
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On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 17:14 +0100, Tomas Henzl wrote:
> On 27.1.2016 06:44, Sathya Prakash wrote:
> > There is no fusion based network card and resources exists today in
> > Avago(LSI) to test this patch so we prefer to leave it as is. We
> > would
> > like to prevent any new changes on MPT (FC/SCSI/SAS/LAN) drivers as
> > we
> > don't have support for those cards anymore,  is there a way we
> > could
> > remove those drivers from newer kernels or mark them as
> > unmaintained?.
> 
> There still are users of some of those drivers (mptsas for example)
> in certain distributions, so even if in fact they aren't
> directly maintained, we should keep them in mainline.

Agreed: the last gen PA-RISC has a mptspi controller ... they'd get a
bit annoyed if we remove it because they wouldn't be able to update
their build machines to newer kernels.

James