From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: mpt2sas and mpt3sas merge (again) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:35:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20140714083547.GA6315@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:55951 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750737AbaGNIfr (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:35:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Reddy, Sreekanth" , Sathya.Prakash@avagotech.com, Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@avagotech.com Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Back when the mpt3sas driver was first posted I suggested that it should be merged into mpt2sas, but my proposal didn't get much traction. Illumos has now produced a shared driver and shown that the difference are basically limited to a different S/G list format [1], and a quick experiment on the Linux drivers confirms this mostly - the additional differences are various smaller workarounds for specific hardware revisions. I think we'd all be served much better with a merged driver. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.illumos.devel/17341