RE: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4).

From: "Andrew Vasquez" <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: Linux-SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4).
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:53:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B179AE41C1147041AA1121F44614F0B060EC80@AVEXCH02.qlogic.org> (raw)

Lars,

> 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/
> 

I would have really liked to be in Ottawa for the kernel-summit.
Unfortunately, the earliest I can arrive is on Tuesday night.  BTW:
Duane Grigsby (from QLogic), will also be attending.  I look forward
to the event.

> 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.
> 

I believe that will have to be the best we can offer, for those that
do not want failover functionality, just disable it.

Regards,
Andrew Vasquez