linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers.

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Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:43:01 +0200
From:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:	Mike Miller <mike.miller@...com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>,
	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, axboe@...nel.dk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers.

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:30:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:25:30 -0500
>> "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers.
>>>
>>> This driver supports a subset of HP Smart Array Controllers.
>>> It is a SCSI alternative to the cciss driver.
>> Does it support all the devices which cciss supports?
>>
>> IOW, do we have a plan here to remove the cciss driver or must we
>> maintain both drivers indefinitely?
> 
> Andrew,
> The hpsa driver supports only the latest generation of Smart Array
> controllers plus the P400 and P800. The goal was to have minimal overlap but
> if we included only the very latest I suspect little testing would be done
> because of the availability of new hardware.
> 
> No new controllers will be added to cciss once hpsa is accepted. We're
> looking at supporting both drivers for 3 or 4 years until cciss can be
> phased out completely.
> 
Yeah!

Thanks, Mike and Stephen, for the effort you put into this.
Very much appreciated.

Cheers,

Hannes
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