From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752451AbbFYNkr (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:40:47 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:36336 "EHLO mail-wi0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751673AbbFYNki (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:40:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1434102153-38581-1-git-send-email-Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com> <1434102153-38581-17-git-send-email-Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:10:36 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Added support for customer specific branding From: Sreekanth Reddy To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: "jejb@kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Sathya Prakash , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > >>>>> "Sreekanth" == Sreekanth Reddy 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