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From: Raghava Aditya Renukunta <RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@pmcs.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 08/10] aacraid: Disable device ID wildcard
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:07:02 +0000
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Hello Christoph,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 12:33 AM
> To: Raghava Aditya Renukunta
> Cc: Tomas Henzl; JBottomley@Parallels.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org;
> Mahesh Rajashekhara; Murthy Bhat; Santosh Akula; Gana Sridaran;
> aacraid@pmc-sierra.com; Rich Bono
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] aacraid: Disable device ID wildcard
> 
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 09:32:18PM +0000, Raghava Aditya Renukunta wrote:
> > This will enable us to prevent aacraid from loading for PCI devices that
> match
> > device ID wildcards. Enabling us to use say a new driver for future devices.
> 
> This looks like a bogus reason.  The same PCI ID should always be
> compatible and mathed by the same driver.  Even if you add a new driver
> to expose additional feature and break these semantics there is no point
> to do a) reject them conditionally on a module option and b) do this
> before said driver is merged.

I have spoken with my team and  it does make more sense to submit
it when the new driver is merged. I will withdraw this patch.

Regards,
Raghava Aditya