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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Chad Dupuis <chad.dupuis@cavium.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Chris Leech <cleech@redhat.com>,
	Chad Dupuis <chad.dupuis@qlogic.com>,
	rt@linutronix.de, Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>,
	QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [REEEEPOST] bnx2i + bnx2fc: convert to generic workqueue (#3)
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 17:15:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1fugdratv.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1705091015070.1067@administrators-MacBook-Pro.local> (Chad Dupuis's message of "Tue, 9 May 2017 10:17:03 -0400 (EDT)")


Chad,

> To be honest, I'm reluctant to merge these patches on bnx2fc as the
> I/O path on this driver has been stable for quite some time and given
> that it's an older driver I'm not looking to make changes there.

I understand that the driver is in maintenance mode. However, the Linux
kernel and its interfaces are not. We do not offer any guarantees in
that department. So even if you do not intend to add new features to
bnx2fc, you will still need to keep it current wrt. the ongoing changes
in kernel interfaces (for better and for worse).

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-09 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-10 17:12 [REEEEPOST] bnx2i + bnx2fc: convert to generic workqueue (#3) Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-04-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] scsi: bnx2i: convert to workqueue Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-05  8:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 10:32   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-05-09  9:30   ` Rangankar, Manish
2017-06-29 13:57   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-07-07 13:14     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-07-07 13:20       ` Chad Dupuis
2017-07-07 13:32         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-04-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] scsi: bnx2fc: convert per-CPU thread " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-05  8:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 10:33   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-04-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] scsi: bnx2fc: clean up header definitions Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-05  8:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 10:33   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-04-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] scsi: bnx2fc: annoate unlock + release for sparse Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-05  8:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 10:34   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-04-10 17:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] scsi: bnx2fc: convert bnx2fc_l2_rcv_thread() to workqueue Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-05  8:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 10:34   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-04-10 18:20 ` [REEEEPOST] bnx2i + bnx2fc: convert to generic workqueue (#3) Chad Dupuis
2017-04-20 20:24   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-04 17:44 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-09  2:04   ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-05-09 14:17     ` Chad Dupuis
2017-05-09 15:18       ` James Bottomley
2017-05-12 15:55         ` Chad Dupuis
2017-05-17 15:01           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-17 15:06             ` Chad Dupuis
2017-05-17 15:07             ` [PREEMPT-RT] " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-17 17:18               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-05-09 21:15       ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]

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