Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:43:01 +0200 | From | Hannes Reinecke <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers. |
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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@beardog.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,
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