Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver

Ingo Molnar
2015-12-02T09:57:15Z

* Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> 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?

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Could we get this upstream ASAP so that people testing later rc's don't lose their
settings?

Thanks!

Ingo