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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4).
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:41:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718124127.GF6520@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718133404.A26784@infradead.org>

On 2003-07-18T13:34:04,
   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said:

> So what?  Vendor ship all kinds of strange stuff and we can't really
> keep the compat cruft for that around.  And the mpio stuff in qla2xxx
> is _lots_ of cruft.

The other points you mentioned preclude merging it into mainline right
now anyway and needs fixing. Your comments there are spot on.

However, while I agree about this being cruft in qla2xxx, it is _used_.
It's a driver / HBA feature which is actively deployed. I'd like to see
it go sooner than later, but by blocking this feature you preclude
those users of the driver from using the mainline one again, which is
the entire point of this exercise.

Dropping such a feature needs some preparation to protect the users, and
isn't justified by the personal dislikes of myself or you I'm afraid
;-)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG
  
"If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)."
  -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy            -- Louis Pasteur

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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4).
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:41:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718124127.GF6520@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718133404.A26784@infradead.org>

On 2003-07-18T13:34:04,
   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said:

> So what?  Vendor ship all kinds of strange stuff and we can't really
> keep the compat cruft for that around.  And the mpio stuff in qla2xxx
> is _lots_ of cruft.

The other points you mentioned preclude merging it into mainline right
now anyway and needs fixing. Your comments there are spot on.

However, while I agree about this being cruft in qla2xxx, it is _used_.
It's a driver / HBA feature which is actively deployed. I'd like to see
it go sooner than later, but by blocking this feature you preclude
those users of the driver from using the mainline one again, which is
the entire point of this exercise.

Dropping such a feature needs some preparation to protect the users, and
isn't justified by the personal dislikes of myself or you I'm afraid
;-)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG
  
"If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)."
  -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy            -- Louis Pasteur
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-18 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-17 23:40 [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4) Andrew Vasquez
2003-07-18 10:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 11:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 12:12   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-18 12:13     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 12:26       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-18 12:26         ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-18 12:34         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 12:41           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2003-07-18 12:41             ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-07-18 12:46             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 13:46   ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-07-18 14:03     ` [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4 ) Jamie Wellnitz
2003-07-18 19:12     ` [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4) Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 19:12       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 19:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-07-18 21:15 Andrew Vasquez
2003-07-18 21:46 Andrew Vasquez
2003-07-18 21:53 Andrew Vasquez
2003-07-19  1:05 Manfred Spraul
2005-01-14 20:24 Eric Pesciotta

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