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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
Cc: john.hall@microsemi.com, Kevin.Barnett@microsemi.com,
	Mahesh.Rajashekhara@microsemi.com, bader.alisaleh@microsemi.com,
	scott.teel@microsemi.com, Viswas.G@microsemi.com,
	Justin.Lindley@microsemi.com, scott.benesh@microsemi.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aacraid: remove wildcard for series 9 controllers
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 04:35:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161216123501.GA31355@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <148184562208.25166.8298541279792087398.stgit@brunhilda>

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:47:02PM -0600, Don Brace wrote:
> From: Kevin Barnett <kevin.barnett@microsemi.com>
> 
> The ID we want to remove from the aacraid driver will not be available until Q1 next year,
> so no customer currently has it yet. If they are running an older kernel, the aacraid driver
> will support this ID but in 'sync' mode, their servers will continue to boot.
> 
> If they upgrade to a newer kernel and do not know  to configure the smartpqi
> driver and the system fails to boot, they can fall back to the previous
> kernel and configure the smartpqi driver.
> 
> This patch is for newer kernels going forward. We need to eliminate the
> duplication for newer kernels. If both drivers support the same ID
> they will have to know how to rebuild their initrd with a specific driver
> order. Customers that have servers configured with both older aacraid devices
> and the newer smartpqi devices will definitely have to do this. Having to
> rebuild the kernel with smartpqi enabled would seem to be an easier
> customer experience.
> 
> The officially supported driver for this ID is smartpqi.
> 
> This patch has been applied to 4.10/scsi-queue

What does this line mean?

Have you read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to submit
patches to the stable tree?

What should I do with this patch?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-16 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-15 23:47 [PATCH] aacraid: remove wildcard for series 9 controllers Don Brace
2016-12-16 12:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-12-22 15:32   ` Don Brace
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-12-08 16:29 Don Brace
2016-12-08 22:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-12-09 21:13   ` Don Brace
2016-12-14  2:03     ` Martin K. Petersen

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