From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4).
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:13:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718131352.A26546@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718121202.GC6520@marowsky-bree.de>; from lmb@suse.de on Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:12:02PM +0200
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:12:02PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> Please come and attend the multipath session at the Kernel Summit and/or
> the Ottawa Linux Symposium next week to learn why this is a bad idea and
> how it can be done better -> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/
-ENOTIME :)
> However, for backwards compatibility with 2.4, I assume it might still
> be needed in 2.5/2.6, but _only_ with the clear intend of phasing it out
> within 2.6 and dropping it in 2.7.
>
> QLogic is reasonably good already in that it can be disabled via a
> module parameter (ql2xfailover=0), allowing the higher level solutions
> to operate.
Given that this module never was in 2.4 I don't see clear backwards
compatiblity problems..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-18 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-17 23:40 [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4) Andrew Vasquez
2003-07-18 10:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 11:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 12:12 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-18 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-07-18 12:26 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-18 12:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 12:41 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-18 12:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 13:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-18 14:03 ` [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4 ) Jamie Wellnitz
2003-07-18 19:12 ` [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4) Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 19:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2003-07-18 21:15 Andrew Vasquez
2003-07-18 21:46 Andrew Vasquez
2003-07-18 21:53 Andrew Vasquez
2003-07-19 1:05 Manfred Spraul
2005-01-14 20:24 Eric Pesciotta
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