From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jejb@linux.ibm.com,
Steve Hagan <steve.hagan@broadcom.com>,
mpi3mr-drvr-developers <mpi3mr-linuxdrv.pdl@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] miscdevice: adding support for MPI3MR_MINOR(243)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 23:38:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1fssn16rp.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e544200d3c6e879ed1f655f0f1ab0db@mail.gmail.com> (Kashyap Desai's message of "Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:46:11 +0530")
Kashyap,
> Immediately dropping ioctl support will create lots of issues for
> Development/Test (within a org + OEM testing). How about accepting
> updated ioctl patch-set after reviewed-by tag (which will not use
> static MAJOR number) for time being ?
If we were to introduce an ioctl interface for mpi3mr we would never be
able to deprecate it without breaking existing applications.
While I appreciate that it is inconvenient to have to update your
tooling, this is the only chance we have to get the interface right.
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-27 3:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-21 18:45 [PATCH 0/7] adding application support Kashyap Desai
2021-09-21 18:45 ` [PATCH 1/7] mpi3mr: upgrade mpi30 Rev-V Kashyap Desai
2021-09-21 18:45 ` [PATCH 2/7] miscdevice: adding support for MPI3MR_MINOR(243) Kashyap Desai
2021-10-05 4:27 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-10-26 11:16 ` Kashyap Desai
2021-10-27 3:38 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2021-10-28 18:34 ` Kashyap Desai
2021-12-13 12:23 ` [mpi3mr] " Sumit Saxena
2021-12-17 3:57 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-09-21 18:45 ` [PATCH 3/7] mpi3mr: controller management application support Kashyap Desai
2021-09-21 18:45 ` [PATCH 4/7] mpi3mr: misc changes and use __builtin_return_address for debug Kashyap Desai
2021-09-21 18:45 ` [PATCH 5/7] mpi3mr: PEL support added Kashyap Desai
2021-09-21 18:45 ` [PATCH 6/7] mpi3mr: nvme pass-through support Kashyap Desai
2021-09-21 18:46 ` [PATCH 7/7] mpi3mr: task management for pass through command Kashyap Desai
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