From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sumit Saxena Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] Drop legacy megaraid controller Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 13:20:35 +0530 Message-ID: <0f96d4aca1a7d4c56a70607012a26a68@mail.gmail.com> References: <1498820754-51032-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> <1498820754-51032-2-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> <20170630173347.GA11420@lst.de> <281a2a28-ff8d-8c65-6d53-ee393ca08e24@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com ([209.85.218.51]:35720 "EHLO mail-oi0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752644AbdGCHui (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 03:50:38 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f51.google.com with SMTP id 191so48541844oii.2 for ; Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:50:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <281a2a28-ff8d-8c65-6d53-ee393ca08e24@suse.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Hannes Reinecke , Christoph Hellwig Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , James Bottomley , Kashyap Desai , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke >-----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 >-- >Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking >hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 >SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=C3=BCrnberg >GF: F. Imend=C3=B6rffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB = 21284 >(AG N=C3=BCrnberg)