From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/2] smartpqi: initial commit of Microsemi smartpqi driver Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:28:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <146706289746.29152.13840476577189238722.stgit@brunhilda> <4993A297653ECB4581FA5C3C31323D19163937F2@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> <4993A297653ECB4581FA5C3C31323D1916394167@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> <4993A297653ECB4581FA5C3C31323D1916394A22@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> <4993A297653ECB4581FA5C3C31323D19163952C1@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:29588 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753071AbcHQC26 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Aug 2016 22:28:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4993A297653ECB4581FA5C3C31323D19163952C1@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> (Don Brace's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:54:50 +0000") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Don Brace Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , "jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , Viswas G , Mahesh Rajashekhara , "hch@infradead.org" , Scott Teel , Kevin Barnett , Justin Lindley , Scott Benesh , "elliott@hpe.com" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" >>>>> "Don" == Don Brace writes: Don, Don> I am thinking that you mean users will need to have some kind of Don> notification that newer kernels will require that the smartpqi Don> driver be configured, especially if they are already booting from Don> the aacraid driver. One issue is Kconfig. You need to make sure that make oldconfig will pull in smartpqi if aacraid was previously selected. The other issue is that the initrd needs to include the smartpqi module. Hopefully dracut will handle this correctly now. But please test that it is working correctly when transitioning from an old kernel with aacraid to a new kernel with smartpqi. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering