From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271617AbTGRL7k (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:59:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271699AbTGRL72 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:59:28 -0400 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:58127 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271617AbTGRL66 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:58:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:13:52 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Lars Marowsky-Bree Cc: Andrew Vasquez , Linux-Kernel , Linux-SCSI Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4). Message-ID: <20030718131352.A26546@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Lars Marowsky-Bree , Andrew Vasquez , Linux-Kernel , Linux-SCSI References: <20030718122304.A23013@infradead.org> <20030718121202.GC6520@marowsky-bree.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030718121202.GC6520@marowsky-bree.de>; from lmb@suse.de on Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:12:02PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:12:02PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > Please come and attend the multipath session at the Kernel Summit and/or > the Ottawa Linux Symposium next week to learn why this is a bad idea and > how it can be done better -> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/ -ENOTIME :) > However, for backwards compatibility with 2.4, I assume it might still > be needed in 2.5/2.6, but _only_ with the clear intend of phasing it out > within 2.6 and dropping it in 2.7. > > QLogic is reasonably good already in that it can be disabled via a > module parameter (ql2xfailover=0), allowing the higher level solutions > to operate. Given that this module never was in 2.4 I don't see clear backwards compatiblity problems..