linux-kernel - Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver

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Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:27:32 -0800
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Sreekanth.Reddy@...gotech.com, hch@....de, hare@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver

[cc to linux-scsi added]
On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.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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