From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ron.mercer@qlogic.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/21][next] qlge: Clean up and add firmware support.
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:17:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090125.221753.112625253.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090123151513.GA8526@linux-ox1b.qlogic.org>
From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:15:13 -0800
> 1) Adds in device ID 8000. Note that it replaces 8012. We don't want to
> carry forward 8012 support unless forced to. If necessary we'll add it
> in disto. It was an early device that didn't have firmware support and
> different flash layout.
You can't add a driver for a device and then say later:
"Oh well, we don't feel like supporting that any longer"
And yes that even applies for something added as recently as September
2008 as this one was.
This leaves a very bad taste in my mouth and that's just the first
patch in the series :-/
You had other changes in the feedback given to you so please undo this
drop of 0x8000 support and respin the rest of the patches too.
I'm completely dropping this series.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-26 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-23 15:15 [PATCH 0/21][next] qlge: Clean up and add firmware support Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 01/21] [next] qlge: Change to device ID 8000 and corresponding flash access Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 23:28 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-24 19:29 ` Ron Mercer
2009-01-25 1:45 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 02/21] [next] qlge: Add new functions for signaling link up/down Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 23:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-24 19:32 ` Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 03/21] [next] qlge: Clean and optimize rx buf queue refill Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 04/21] [next] qlge: Clean up adapter reset function Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 05/21] [next] qlge: Add new function for MAC address and frame routing Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 06/21] [next] qlge: Expand granularity on holding hardware semaphore Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 07/21] [next] qlge: Remove lock protection in adapter up/down Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 08/21] [next] qlge: Move interrupt enable to end of adapter up function Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 09/21] [next] qlge: Upgrade print priority for hardware event handler Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 10/21] [next] qlge: Cleanup rx buffer allocations Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 11/21] [next] qlge: Cleanup spin lock usage for some register accesses Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 12/21] [next] qlge: Clean up chip reset path Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 13/21] [next] qlge: Cleanup MPI RISC " Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 14/21] [next] qlge: Clean up MPI firware event handler Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 15/21] [next] qlge: Get rid of local xgmac control Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 16/21] [next] qlge: Add some constants for firmware support Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 17/21] [next] qlge: Use new link up/down func FW event handler Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 18/21] [next] qlge: Add new firmware event handlers for SFP Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 19/21] [next] qlge: Set the MAC addr/frame routing after a firmware event Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 20/21] [next] qlge: Add mailbox command support Ron Mercer
2009-01-23 15:16 ` [PATCH 21/21] [next] qlge: Add port config mailbox command Ron Mercer
2009-01-26 6:17 ` David Miller [this message]
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