Re: [PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon SAS driver

From	John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon SAS driver
Date	2015-11-19 11:00 +0100
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On 19/11/2015 03:15, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "John" == John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> writes:
>
> John> thanks, please note that we still have the dependency on
> John> http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg452833.html
>
> John> Without it the driver can only be built into the kernel, and not
> John> as a module.
>
> I have your driver in a staging branch rather than the main 4.5 SCSI
> queue because I wanted to see what kind of additional fallout I'd get
> from the zeroday testing.
>
> It's not a problem for me to wait for that patch to go in (or take it
> through SCSI if that makes things easier).
>

The issue is the I don't know if Rob will approve the requested patch.

As an alternative I can make my driver not depend on it. So I could make 
a v6 patchset or just send a supplementary patch on top of v5 patchset.

Thanks,
John

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[PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon SAS driver John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2015-11-17 18:00 +0100
  [PATCH v5 17/32] scsi: hisi_sas: add v1 hw module init John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2015-11-17 18:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon SAS driver "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2015-11-18 18:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon SAS driver "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2015-11-19 04:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v5 00/32] HiSilicon SAS driver John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2015-11-19 11:00 +0100

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