RE: [PATCH 1/2] Drop legacy megaraid controller

[Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hannes Reinecke [mailto:hare@suse.de]
>Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 11:46 PM
>To: Christoph Hellwig
>Cc: Martin K. Petersen; James Bottomley; Kashyap Desai; Sumit Saxena;
>linux-
>scsi@vger.kernel.org; Hannes Reinecke
>Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drop legacy megaraid controller
>
>On 06/30/2017 07:33 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 01:05:53PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>> The hardware is ancient, and support for most cards has been moved to
>>> megaraid_mbox. So drop it.
>>
>>
>> This seems to drop support for the PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMI_MEGARAID and
>> PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMI_MEGARAID2 cards.  Do we have any suggestions this
>> code is so broken to not care anymore? Is there any reason why they
>> can't just work with the megaraid_mbox driver?
>>
>Hmm. Probably no good reason at all.
>I'll check which version I have here.

Hannes,
We are willing to keep only megaraid_sas driver and intent is rest of
megaraid* drivers
(it includes megaraid, megaraid_mm, megaraid_mbox) should be removed.
Broadcom(LSI) has stopped supporting hardware associated with these old
drivers.

Thanks,
Sumit
>
>Cheers,
>
>Hannes
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