From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com, hch@lst.de, hare@suse.de,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:27:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1448904452.2204.24.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq14mg3iesi.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
[cc to linux-scsi added]
On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> writes:
>
> Ingo> So you need to make it interactive, with a short help text that
> Ingo> explains to users that this is legacy option only, and that they
> Ingo> should enable the MPT3SAS option if they want to configure things
> Ingo> manually.
>
> +config SCSI_MPT2SAS
> + tristate "Legacy MPT2SAS config option"
> + default n
> + select SCSI_MPT3SAS
> + ---help---
> + Dummy config option for backwards compatiblity: configure the MPT3SAS
> + driver instead.
>
> That's fine with me.
>
> Sreekanth/Christoph/James: Any objections?
Looks OK, we probably need a removal timeframe for it as well. What
about removal in 4.6?
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-30 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-23 12:46 MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver Peter Zijlstra
2015-11-24 7:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24 7:54 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-11-24 7:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-24 8:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-11-24 12:02 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-11-26 10:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-11-30 17:21 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-11-30 17:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-30 17:27 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2015-12-01 9:49 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-12-02 9:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-11-26 10:51 ` Ingo Molnar
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