Message-ID: <1448904452.2204.24.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Sreekanth.Reddy@avagotech.com, hch@lst.de, hare@suse.de,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:27:32 -0800
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On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 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?

Looks OK, we probably need a removal timeframe for it as well.  What
about removal in 4.6?

James


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