From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Smart Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] lpfc 10.2.8001.0: Removed obsolete PCI IDs from the driver Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 13:39:50 -0400 Message-ID: <537A41E6.8010607@emulex.com> References: <1399910007.25346.10.camel@myfc17> <20140519171944.GC32250@infradead.org> Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cmexedge1.ext.emulex.com ([138.239.224.99]:28628 "EHLO CMEXEDGE1.ext.emulex.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932523AbaESRjx (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2014 13:39:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140519171944.GC32250@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org :) for those distros, that want to pull only upstream'd patches, and where customers expect someone to take phone calls on any hardware recognized by the distro... the patch is to remove the hardware Emulex/the distro won't answer any questions for anymore. true - the hardware, if you can find it lying around somewhere, may still function. It won't get firmware updates, nor any mindshare. I'm not sure where the policy is for upstream - is it truly once known, can never be taken away ? -- james s On 5/19/2014 1:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:53:27AM -0400, James Smart wrote: >> Removed obsolete PCI IDs from the driver. > How are these obsolete? > > >