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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com, hch@lst.de, hare@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:57:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151202095706.GB17324@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq14mg3iesi.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>


* 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-02  9:57 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
2015-12-01  9:49       ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-12-02  9:57       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-11-26 10:51   ` Ingo Molnar

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