From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: mpt2sas and mpt3sas merge (again) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:34:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20140714083547.GA6315@infradead.org> <53C3A170.1070101@suse.de> <1405347425.2395.5.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:26006 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756358AbaGNVeo (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:34:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1405347425.2395.5.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> (James Bottomley's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:17:05 -0700") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Hannes Reinecke , Christoph Hellwig , "Reddy, Sreekanth" , Sathya.Prakash@avagotech.com, Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@avagotech.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "James" == James Bottomley writes: James> I support the concept, since I think everyone told LSI at the James> time that splitting the drivers would become a maintenance James> nightmare. And it is. I'd like to see these drivers merged as well. James> One of the big reasons we don't have a lot of leverage with them James> is that they always seem to slide updates around upstream via the James> distros (often, it has to be admitted the DKM route), so if Red James> Hat, SUSE, Oracle and Canonical can agree not to accept LSI James> updates until the driver is done this way, we'd have a lot more James> leverage. Unless it's a trivial bug fix Oracle won't take anything that's not accepted upstream. We are working with Avago/LSI to streamline their driver process to be a better fit for both upstream development and distro kernels. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering