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

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Date:	Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:19:52 +0530
From:	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...gotech.com>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@...cle.com> 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?

[Sreekanth] Martin, I am fine with this change.

>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering
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