From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: RE: [PATCH V4 2/2] aacraid: remove wildcard for series 9 controllers Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 18:38:02 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <48C22F0C33E45A4F83E15DF49719341D38F495F6@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:58558 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753174AbcIHWk5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2016 18:40:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48C22F0C33E45A4F83E15DF49719341D38F495F6@avsrvexchmbx1.microsemi.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Scott Benesh , James Bottomley , Don Brace , "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Viswas G , Mahesh Rajashekhara , "hch@infradead.org" , Scott Teel , Kevin Barnett , Justin Lindley , "elliott@hpe.com" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" On September 8, 2016 2:33:52 PM EDT, Scott Benesh 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. >> > >That's ok because for previous distros the new controller will work >with the previous aacraid driver, although with non-optimal >performance. Not after this change hits. Then systems that only have aacraid in the initrd will fail to boot. >What we want to do is sync up at 4.9 so going forward only the new >smartpqi driver will attach to these new controllers. So you have a plan in place with the distros to migrate the initrd images? Without being told, some will only install the modules the previous initrd was configured for. James >Scott > >> Given that the life times of enterprise distributions is two years >and you're >> releasing this smartpqi soon, the overlap is unavoidable. >> >> James >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.