From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271736AbTGRM0o (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:26:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271735AbTGRM0n (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:26:43 -0400 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:53737 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271722AbTGRM0i (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:26:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:41:27 +0200 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Vasquez , Linux-Kernel , Linux-SCSI Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4). Message-ID: <20030718124127.GF6520@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20030718122304.A23013@infradead.org> <20030718121202.GC6520@marowsky-bree.de> <20030718131352.A26546@infradead.org> <20030718122622.GD6520@marowsky-bree.de> <20030718133404.A26784@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030718133404.A26784@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2003-07-18T13:34:04, Christoph Hellwig said: > So what? Vendor ship all kinds of strange stuff and we can't really > keep the compat cruft for that around. And the mpio stuff in qla2xxx > is _lots_ of cruft. The other points you mentioned preclude merging it into mainline right now anyway and needs fixing. Your comments there are spot on. However, while I agree about this being cruft in qla2xxx, it is _used_. It's a driver / HBA feature which is actively deployed. I'd like to see it go sooner than later, but by blocking this feature you preclude those users of the driver from using the mainline one again, which is the entire point of this exercise. Dropping such a feature needs some preparation to protect the users, and isn't justified by the personal dislikes of myself or you I'm afraid ;-) Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur