RE: [patch 10/30] megaraid: add CERC_ATA100 support

Patro, Sumant
2007-08-10T23:58:52Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org]
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:36 PM
> To: Patro, Sumant
> Cc: James.Bottomley@steeleye.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org;
> tkrah@fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de; protasnb@gmail.com;
> Kolli, Neela; Yang, Bo
> Subject: Re: [patch 10/30] megaraid: add CERC_ATA100 support
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:20:54 -0600
> "Patro, Sumant" <Sumant.Patro@lsi.com> wrote:
>
> > ID being added is already supported in megaraid_mbox driver.
>
> umm, why should that cause us to avoid supporting it in the
> old driver?
>

With overlapping ids it will be indeterminate which one (megaraid
legacy/mbox) claims the device.
All overlapping IDS were removed from megaraid legacy/megaraid_mbox
driver about 2 years back.

--Sumant