Re: [PATCHv2 0/6] hpsa legacy support

Martin K. Petersen
2017-08-15T03:39:41Z

Hannes,

> here's now the second attempt to add support for legacy boards, ie for
> boards previously supported by cciss only. With this patchset the
> hpsa driver should work with all Smart Array boards if the
> 'hpsa_allow_any' module option is set, rendering the cciss driver
> obsolete. Consequently I've added a patch to remove the cciss driver
> and make 'hpsa' an alias to 'cciss'.

How does the module alias solve the problem that hpsa_allow_any=1 needs
to be added for users currently running cciss?

I also fail to see what the point is of having an opt-in parameter when
there is no alternative after cciss has been removed. It's a
don't-be-broken switch.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering