From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Bj??rn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: sreekanth.reddy@lsi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
jejb@kernel.org, Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com,
Sathya.Prakash@lsi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][SCSI] mpt3sas: Paer 1 of MPI API headers
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:50:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120930015027.GA28918@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vbsy2jg.fsf@nemi.mork.no>
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:52:50PM +0200, Bj??rn Mork wrote:
> <sreekanth.reddy@lsi.com> writes:
> > This patch contains MPI API headers
>
> Why can't this and the other headers be shared between the mpt2sas and
> mpt3sas drivers? Looks like you are duplicating a lot of code already
> present in drivers/scsi/mpt2sas. Why? That's a recipe for maintenance
> hell...
I would go further and ask why this needs a new driver; why can't mpt2sas
be enhanced to drive the 12Gbit cards?
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-30 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-29 14:07 [PATCH][SCSI] mpt3sas: Paer 1 of MPI API headers sreekanth.reddy
2012-09-29 20:52 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-09-30 1:50 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2012-10-02 15:19 ` Nandigama, Nagalakshmi
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