From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 0/3] Deprecate DAC960 driver
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 08:19:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ac9b798-c2ba-a0a3-9a43-c3743eefae0a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181012071548.129113-1-hare@suse.de>
On 10/12/18 1:15 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as we're trying to get rid of the remaining request_fn drivers here's
> a patchset to move the DAC960 driver to the SCSI stack.
> As per request from hch I've split up the driver into two new SCSI
> drivers called 'myrb' and 'myrs'.
>
> The 'myrb' driver only supports the earlier (V1) firmware interface, which
> doesn't have a SCSI interface for the logical drives; for those I've added
> a (pretty rudimentary, admittedly) SCSI translation for them.
>
> The 'myrs' driver supports the newer (V2) firmware interface, which is
> SCSI based and doesn't need the translation layer.
>
> And the weird proc interface from DAC960 has been converted to sysfs attributes.
>
> Tested with eXtremeRAID 1100 (for V1 Firmware) and Mylex AcceleRAID 170
> (for V2 Firmware).
Martin, are you taking the two new drivers? Then I'll queue up the
old driver removal.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-17 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-12 7:15 [PATCHv5 0/3] Deprecate DAC960 driver Hannes Reinecke
2018-10-12 7:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] myrb: Add Mylex RAID controller (block interface) Hannes Reinecke
2018-10-17 7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-12 7:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] myrs: Add Mylex RAID controller (SCSI interface) Hannes Reinecke
2018-10-17 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-12 7:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] drivers/block: Remove DAC960 driver Hannes Reinecke
2018-10-17 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-12 13:38 ` [PATCHv5 0/3] Deprecate " Bart Van Assche
2018-10-12 16:39 ` Jens Axboe
2018-10-17 14:19 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2018-10-17 22:49 ` Martin K. Petersen
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