Re: [RFC-v4 0/3] qla2xxx: v3.4 target mode LLD changes + tcm_qla2xxx fabric module

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>]

On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 14:25 -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > I think the most important item is to sort out the mess around the old
> > generation qla23xx support.  The way the code currently sprinkles ifs
> > around that is a complete mess.  Given that the qla23xx support has as
> > far as I know zero test coverage, and has been EOLed by qlogic I see
> > no reason to keep it around.
> > 
> > Anyone disagreeing with that?
> > 
> 
> Christoph,
> 
> >From an engineering and support perspective it doesn't make sense to
> keep the (unsupported and untested) pre-ISP24xx codes around.  Going
> forward, once internal resources can be allocated, QLogic would like
> to see support for all ISP24xx and above hardware.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew Vasquez
> 

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the official clarification here from Qlogic wrt to pre 24xx
hardware support in qla_target.c.  We will go ahead and begin dropping
the legacy support and plan to have all the old code removed for an
RFC-v5 series to be posted after the holidays.

Thank you,

--nab