From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>, Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/6] hpsa legacy support
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 23:39:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq14lt9wlco.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1502709555-15837-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> (Hannes Reinecke's message of "Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:19:09 +0200")
Hannes,
> here's now the second attempt to add support for legacy boards, ie for
> boards previously supported by cciss only. With this patchset the
> hpsa driver should work with all Smart Array boards if the
> 'hpsa_allow_any' module option is set, rendering the cciss driver
> obsolete. Consequently I've added a patch to remove the cciss driver
> and make 'hpsa' an alias to 'cciss'.
How does the module alias solve the problem that hpsa_allow_any=1 needs
to be added for users currently running cciss?
I also fail to see what the point is of having an opt-in parameter when
there is no alternative after cciss has been removed. It's a
don't-be-broken switch.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-15 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-14 11:19 [PATCHv2 0/6] hpsa legacy support Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-14 11:19 ` [PATCHv2 1/6] hpsa: add support for legacy boards Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-14 11:19 ` [PATCHv2 2/6] hpsa: disable volume status check " Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-14 11:19 ` [PATCHv2 3/6] hpsa: Ignore errors for unsupported LV_DEVICE_ID VPD page Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-14 11:19 ` [PATCHv2 4/6] hpsa: do not print errors for unsupported report luns format Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-14 11:19 ` [PATCHv2 5/6] hpsa: handle unsupported devices more gracefully Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-14 11:19 ` [PATCHv2 6/6] cciss: Drop obsolete driver Hannes Reinecke
2017-08-14 18:10 ` Don Brace
2017-08-15 3:39 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2017-08-15 6:22 ` [PATCHv2 0/6] hpsa legacy support Hannes Reinecke
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