From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Don Brace Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] aacraid: remove wildcard for series 9 controllers Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 10:41:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87b601b5-87c4-cbce-dea6-69cc5df2e218@microsemi.com> References: <146706289746.29152.13840476577189238722.stgit@brunhilda> <146706367078.29152.14405582249219794335.stgit@brunhilda> <4993A297653ECB4581FA5C3C31323D191639AC20@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> <4993A297653ECB4581FA5C3C31323D191639AE64@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> <1473359114.2781.38.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f196.google.com ([209.85.192.196]:33477 "EHLO mail-pf0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753725AbcJNPlt (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:41:49 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-f196.google.com with SMTP id i85so4064461pfa.0 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2016 08:41:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1473359114.2781.38.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley , "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Viswas G , Mahesh Rajashekhara , "hch@infradead.org" , Scott Teel , Kevin Barnett , Justin Lindley , Scott Benesh , "elliott@hpe.com" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" On 09/08/2016 01:25 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 18:15 +0000, Don Brace wrote: >>>> - { 0x9005, 0x028f, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 65 }, /* >>>> Adaptec PMC >>>> Series 9 */ >>>> >>>> How are people that load aacraid in their initrd going to boot >>>> after >>>> this? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering >>> I updated smartpqi/Kconfig and added >>> Documentation/scsi/smartpqi.txt to >>> inform users of the >>> need to configure the smartpqi driver moving forward for aacraid >>> Series 9 >>> controllers. >>> >>> Hope this helps. > That's not going to be enough: this ID has been in the aacriad driver > since 2011. That means anyone who finally gets hold of one of these > new cards but uses a distro that doesn't have the new smartpqi driver > will be attached via the aacraid one. > > Given that the life times of enterprise distributions is two years and > you're releasing this smartpqi soon, the overlap is unavoidable. > > James > We can make sure that we mention the need to enable the smartpqi driver in the documentation provided/posted for these new controllers otherwise the aacraid driver will not be able to fully support the new controller features. Don > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html