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SubjectRe: [PATCH 16/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Added support for customer specific branding
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Sreekanth" == Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@avagotech.com> writes:
>
> Sreekanth> I agree with you that these changes belong in pci.ids. But
> Sreekanth> Customers are asking us to print the HBA branding name while
> Sreekanth> loading the driver on their custom HBA's.
>
> Yes, and other HBA vendors have done the same (although thankfully this
> practice appears to be going out of fashion).
>
> Personally, I find SAS2308 orders of magnitude more useful and helpful
> than WHIZ-BANG2010 since the former tells me exactly what chip I'm
> dealing with.
>
> Anyway. No big deal. I just think it's a bad habit to use the kernel for
> marketing purposes.

Agreed. Can you please consider this patch for this time. Next time
onwards we take some actions to not encourage these types of request
from customers.

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




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Regards,
Sreekanth


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