Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932499AbbLBJ5P (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2015 04:57:15 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com ([74.125.82.47]:37763 "EHLO mail-wm0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757012AbbLBJ5K (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2015 04:57:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:57:06 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: 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 Message-ID: <20151202095706.GB17324@gmail.com> References: <20151123124621.GF7520@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20151126104823.GA8745@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1046 Lines: 35 * Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "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? Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Could we get this upstream ASAP so that people testing later rc's don't lose their settings? Thanks! Ingo -- 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/