From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Subject: Re: [RFC-v4 0/3] qla2xxx: v3.4 target mode LLD changes + tcm_qla2xxx fabric module Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:59:34 -0800 Message-ID: <1324677574.16979.109.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> References: <1324173746-14361-1-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org> <20111221171135.GA27369@lst.de> <20111222222520.GP22063@plapa.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111222222520.GP22063@plapa.qlogic.org> Sender: target-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Vasquez Cc: Christoph Hellwig , target-devel , linux-scsi , Giridhar Malavali , James Bottomley , Roland Dreier , Joern Engel , Madhuranath Iyengar List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 14:25 -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > I think the most important item is to sort out the mess around the old > > generation qla23xx support. The way the code currently sprinkles ifs > > around that is a complete mess. Given that the qla23xx support has as > > far as I know zero test coverage, and has been EOLed by qlogic I see > > no reason to keep it around. > > > > Anyone disagreeing with that? > > > > Christoph, > > >From an engineering and support perspective it doesn't make sense to > keep the (unsupported and untested) pre-ISP24xx codes around. Going > forward, once internal resources can be allocated, QLogic would like > to see support for all ISP24xx and above hardware. > > Regards, > Andrew Vasquez > Hi Andrew, Thanks for the official clarification here from Qlogic wrt to pre 24xx hardware support in qla_target.c. We will go ahead and begin dropping the legacy support and plan to have all the old code removed for an RFC-v5 series to be posted after the holidays. Thank you, --nab