Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752226AbbFVUhS (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:37:18 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:44806 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751403AbbFVUhM (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:37:12 -0400 To: Sreekanth Reddy Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , "jejb\@kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig , "linux-scsi\@vger.kernel.org" , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Sathya Prakash , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Added support for customer specific branding From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <1434102153-38581-1-git-send-email-Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com> <1434102153-38581-17-git-send-email-Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:36:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Sreekanth Reddy's message of "Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:56:58 +0530") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 21 >>>>> "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. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/