From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers. Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:22:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20091003112249.5fb1b241.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20091001211705.15591.76403.stgit@beardog.cce.hp.com> <20091001143035.a83a7564.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20091002191626.GA17862@beardog.cce.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50110 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752220AbZJCSXn (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:23:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091002191626.GA17862@beardog.cce.hp.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Miller Cc: "Stephen M. Cameron" , James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mikem@beardog.cce.hp.com, jowens@hp.com On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:16:26 -0500 Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:30:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:25:30 -0500 > > "Stephen M. Cameron" wrote: > > > > > Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers. > > > > > > This driver supports a subset of HP Smart Array Controllers. > > > It is a SCSI alternative to the cciss driver. > > > > Does it support all the devices which cciss supports? > > > > IOW, do we have a plan here to remove the cciss driver or must we > > maintain both drivers indefinitely? > > Andrew, et al., > >From the lack of response I'm guessing my reply about phasing cciss out > completely did not go over well. Or is that what the question meant? > > We purposely limited controller support in hpsa to try and prevent problems > in the field. What's needed to get hpsa accepted? Add support for all > hardware? > > While we do not want to maintain 2 drivers indefinitely we (HP) must > continue to support cciss for some years to come. > > Any guidance is appreciated. > Well, obviously it's neater if we can retire the old driver. Sometimes life isn't neat. We had a similar situation with e1000-vs-e1000e. And with e100-vs-eepro100, although eepro100 went away after many years.