From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56806 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761315AbcLPMew (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2016 07:34:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 04:35:01 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Don Brace 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 Message-ID: <20161216123501.GA31355@kroah.com> References: <148184562208.25166.8298541279792087398.stgit@brunhilda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <148184562208.25166.8298541279792087398.stgit@brunhilda> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:47:02PM -0600, Don Brace wrote: > From: Kevin Barnett > > 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