From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>,
James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, axboe@kernel.dk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers.
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:43:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC9E9D5.6080809@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091001214239.GA15691@beardog.cce.hp.com>
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" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> 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,
> The hpsa driver supports only the latest generation of Smart Array
> controllers plus the P400 and P800. The goal was to have minimal overlap but
> if we included only the very latest I suspect little testing would be done
> because of the availability of new hardware.
>
> No new controllers will be added to cciss once hpsa is accepted. We're
> looking at supporting both drivers for 3 or 4 years until cciss can be
> phased out completely.
>
Yeah!
Thanks, Mike and Stephen, for the effort you put into this.
Very much appreciated.
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-05 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-01 21:25 [PATCH] Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers Stephen M. Cameron
2009-10-01 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-01 21:42 ` Mike Miller
2009-10-05 12:43 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2009-10-02 19:16 ` Mike Miller
2009-10-03 18:22 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-02 20:23 ` Rolf Eike Beer
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