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

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First post2015-11-30 18:30 +0100
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  Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2015-11-30 18:30 +0100
    Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2015-11-30 18:30 +0100
    Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com> - 2015-12-01 11:00 +0100
    Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-12-02 11:00 +0100

#1280129 — Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver

From"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Date2015-11-30 18:30 +0100
SubjectRe: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver
Message-ID<qAAr0-6zg-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
>>>>> "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?

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#1280132

FromJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Date2015-11-30 18:30 +0100
Message-ID<qAAr0-6zg-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1280129
[cc to linux-scsi added]
On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Martin K. Petersen 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?

Looks OK, we probably need a removal timeframe for it as well.  What
about removal in 4.6?

James



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#1280715

FromSreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com>
Date2015-12-01 11:00 +0100
Message-ID<qAPT4-7WO-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1280129
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:51 PM, 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?

[Sreekanth] Martin, I am fine with this change.

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#1281566

FromIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date2015-12-02 11:00 +0100
Message-ID<qBcmB-5tS-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1280129
* 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
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