Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754147AbbK3RWR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:22:17 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:21638 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752473AbbK3RWQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:22:16 -0500 To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Peter Zijlstra , Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com, hch@lst.de, hare@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Bottomley Subject: Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <20151123124621.GF7520@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20151126104823.GA8745@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:21:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20151126104823.GA8745@gmail.com> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:48:23 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (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: 847 Lines: 26 >>>>> "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar writes: Ingo> So you need to make it interactive, with a short help text that Ingo> explains to users that this is legacy option only, and that they Ingo> should enable the MPT3SAS option if they want to configure things Ingo> manually. +config SCSI_MPT2SAS + tristate "Legacy MPT2SAS config option" + default n + select SCSI_MPT3SAS + ---help--- + Dummy config option for backwards compatiblity: configure the MPT3SAS + driver instead. That's fine with me. Sreekanth/Christoph/James: Any objections? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/