From: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "jejb@kernel.org" <jejb@kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
Sathya Prakash <Sathya.Prakash@avagotech.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Added support for customer specific branding
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:10:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK=zhgpxe-hzfe2ctjkwWsRgEYptj9pQPRO35MSq1P=cTLKjpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1egl37a5u.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Sreekanth" == Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com> writes:
>
> Sreekanth> I agree with you that these changes belong in pci.ids. But
> Sreekanth> Customers are asking us to print the HBA branding name while
> Sreekanth> loading the driver on their custom HBA's.
>
> Yes, and other HBA vendors have done the same (although thankfully this
> practice appears to be going out of fashion).
>
> Personally, I find SAS2308 orders of magnitude more useful and helpful
> than WHIZ-BANG2010 since the former tells me exactly what chip I'm
> dealing with.
>
> Anyway. No big deal. I just think it's a bad habit to use the kernel for
> marketing purposes.
Agreed. Can you please consider this patch for this time. Next time
onwards we take some actions to not encourage these types of request
from customers.
>
>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
--
Regards,
Sreekanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-25 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-12 9:42 [PATCH 00/20] mpt3sas: driver update Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 01/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Added Combined Reply Queue feature to extend up-to 96 MSIX vector support Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 11:09 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-12 11:16 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 11:16 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 9:57 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 9:57 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-19 9:14 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 9:14 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 9:21 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-19 9:21 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-19 9:55 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 9:55 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 02/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Get IOC_FACTS information using handshake protocol only after HBA card gets into READY or Operational state Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-16 15:59 ` Tomas Henzl
2015-06-17 9:08 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 03/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Don't block the drive when drive addition under the control of SML Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-19 15:05 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 15:05 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 04/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Remove redundancy code while freeing the controller resources Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 11:28 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-12 12:18 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 12:40 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 10:26 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 10:26 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 10:48 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 10:48 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-18 9:52 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 9:52 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 10:08 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 15:09 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 15:09 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 05/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: MPI 2.5 Rev I (2.5.4) specifications Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:51 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 15:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 15:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 06/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Provides the physical location of sas drives Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 9:56 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-19 9:19 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 9:19 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 10:53 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-19 10:53 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 07/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Bump mpt3sas Driver version to v5.100.00.00 Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:52 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 20:22 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:22 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 08/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Update MPI2 strings to MPI2.5 Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:52 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 9:52 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 20:24 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:24 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 09/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: MPI 2.5 Rev J (2.5.5) specification and 2.00.34 header files Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:53 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 9:53 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 20:27 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:27 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-22 12:18 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-22 12:18 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 10/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Add branding string support for OEM's HBA Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:46 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 9:46 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 11:11 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 11:11 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 11:53 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 12:00 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 9:51 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 10:09 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-18 10:09 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 20:30 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:30 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 11/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Add branding string support for OEM custom HBA Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 9:55 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-19 20:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:34 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 12/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Bump mpt3sas driver version to v6.100.00.00 Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:53 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 9:53 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 20:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:35 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 13/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: MPI 2.5 Rev K (2.5.6) specifications Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:54 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 9:54 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 20:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 14/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Complete the SCSI command with DID_RESET status for log_info value 0x0x32010081 Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 10:01 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-15 11:01 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 11:01 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 15/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Return host busy error status to SML when DMA mapping of scatter gather list fails for a SCSI command Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:54 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 20:40 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:40 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 16/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Added support for customer specific branding Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-18 9:53 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-19 20:44 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:44 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-22 12:26 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-22 12:26 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-22 20:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-22 20:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-25 13:40 ` Sreekanth Reddy [this message]
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 17/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Use alloc_ordered_workqueue() API instead of create_singlethread_workqueue() API Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 21:03 ` Joe Lawrence
2015-06-12 21:03 ` Joe Lawrence
2015-06-15 10:56 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 21:05 ` James Bottomley
2015-06-16 5:03 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 18/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Call dma_mapping_error() API after mapping an address with dma_map_single() API Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:55 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 20:47 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 20:47 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 19/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: When device is blocked followed by unblock fails, unfreeze the I/Os Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:58 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-12 9:42 ` [PATCH 20/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas : Bump mpt3sas driver version to 9.100.00.00 Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-15 9:56 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2015-06-19 21:01 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-06-19 21:01 ` Martin K. Petersen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-03-30 13:55 [PATCH 00/20] mpt3sas: driver update Sreekanth Reddy
2015-03-30 13:55 ` [PATCH 16/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Added support for customer specific branding Sreekanth Reddy
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