From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271734AbTGRMTM (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:19:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271720AbTGRMTM (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:19:12 -0400 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:6160 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271718AbTGRMTJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:19:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:34:04 +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: <20030718133404.A26784@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> <20030718131352.A26546@infradead.org> <20030718122622.GD6520@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: <20030718122622.GD6520@marowsky-bree.de>; from lmb@suse.de on Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:26:22PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 02:26:22PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > Given that this module never was in 2.4 I don't see clear backwards > > compatiblity problems.. > > You are being very funny. No, nobody ever shipped a qlogic driver. > Right. 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.