From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [REEEEPOST] bnx2i + bnx2fc: convert to generic workqueue (#3) Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 17:15:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170410171254.30367-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de> <20170504174427.6hebbnqwfgems6dg@linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:51733 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778AbdEIVPx (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2017 17:15:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Chad Dupuis's message of "Tue, 9 May 2017 10:17:03 -0400 (EDT)") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Chad Dupuis Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Chris Leech , Chad Dupuis , rt@linutronix.de, Lee Duncan , QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com, Andrew Morton , Johannes Thumshirn , Christoph Hellwig 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