From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Shirron, Stephen" <Stephen.Shirron@lsil.com>
Cc: "Moore, Eric Dean" <Emoore@lsil.com>,
andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IP over FC and qlogic workarounds in fusion
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:14:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907181415.GB12654@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC3CE0375D29D51199A400508B66CA6C099478E1@exc-snake.co.lsil.com>
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:12:10PM -0600, Shirron, Stephen wrote:
> One problem I see with trying to remove this workaround from
> our driver is that it would have to be coupled with a kernel
> release, and then the newer driver would be bound to that release.
> It would make it harder for customers to use a new driver kit with
> an old kernel.
>
> How is something like this typically addressed?
Backport the stack changes aswell when you want to run an older release.
There's a lot of recent additions additions that move code from drivers
to the stack and you need to make sure that the stack code is uptodate
to use all those features.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-07 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-07 18:12 IP over FC and qlogic workarounds in fusion Shirron, Stephen
2004-09-07 18:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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2004-08-30 22:29 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-09-06 10:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 4:16 ` Andrew Vasquez
2004-08-28 19:37 Christoph Hellwig
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