linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] mptlan: add checks for dma mapping errors

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 08:23:41 -0800
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Tomas Henzl <thenzl@...hat.com>,
	Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@...gotech.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:	Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...gotech.com>,
	PDL-MPT-FUSIONLINUX <MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...gotech.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ldv-project@...uxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mptlan: add checks for dma mapping errors

On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 17:14 +0100, Tomas Henzl wrote:
> On 27.1.2016 06:44, Sathya Prakash wrote:
> > There is no fusion based network card and resources exists today in
> > Avago(LSI) to test this patch so we prefer to leave it as is. We
> > would
> > like to prevent any new changes on MPT (FC/SCSI/SAS/LAN) drivers as
> > we
> > don't have support for those cards anymore,  is there a way we
> > could
> > remove those drivers from newer kernels or mark them as
> > unmaintained?.
> 
> There still are users of some of those drivers (mptsas for example)
> in certain distributions, so even if in fact they aren't
> directly maintained, we should keep them in mainline.

Agreed: the last gen PA-RISC has a mptspi controller ... they'd get a
bit annoyed if we remove it because they wouldn't be able to update
their build machines to newer kernels.

James