From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ocean HY1 He <hehy1@lenovo.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>,
"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let AHCI dirver skip Lenovo SWRAID controller
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 05:24:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160126132424.GA1993@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A76999.8050206@lenovo.com>
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:42:43PM +0000, Ocean HY1 He wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for your comments!
>
> Lenovo SWRAID driver is a closed source driver at this time, I am afraid
> it's not possible to submit it to kernel.
So you're violating our copyright and want help for that? Be ashamed!
> This patch is very important and critical for Lenovo next generation
> Servers. I have tried to make sure this patch only impacts Lenovo
> dedicated hardware and add a on/off boot option to end user who may
> still wants using open source SWRAID(such as MDRAID).
The right ting is to always use mdraid and contribute the lenovo
superblock format to it, similar to how we support half a dozen other
non-native formats.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-25 3:11 [PATCH] Let AHCI dirver skip Lenovo SWRAID controller Ocean HY1 He
2016-01-25 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-01-25 13:18 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-26 12:42 ` Ocean HY1 He
2016-01-26 13:24 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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