Re: [PATCH] aacraid: remove wildcard for series 9 controllers

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:47:02PM -0600, Don Brace wrote:
> From: Kevin Barnett <kevin.barnett@microsemi.com>
> 
> The ID we want to remove from the aacraid driver will not be available until Q1 next year,
> so no customer currently has it yet. If they are running an older kernel, the aacraid driver
> will support this ID but in 'sync' mode, their servers will continue to boot.
> 
> If they upgrade to a newer kernel and do not know  to configure the smartpqi
> driver and the system fails to boot, they can fall back to the previous
> kernel and configure the smartpqi driver.
> 
> This patch is for newer kernels going forward. We need to eliminate the
> duplication for newer kernels. If both drivers support the same ID
> they will have to know how to rebuild their initrd with a specific driver
> order. Customers that have servers configured with both older aacraid devices
> and the newer smartpqi devices will definitely have to do this. Having to
> rebuild the kernel with smartpqi enabled would seem to be an easier
> customer experience.
> 
> The officially supported driver for this ID is smartpqi.
> 
> This patch has been applied to 4.10/scsi-queue

What does this line mean?

Have you read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to submit
patches to the stable tree?

What should I do with this patch?

thanks,

greg k-h