Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 2016 05:24:24 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Let AHCI dirver skip Lenovo SWRAID controller |
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:42:43PM +0000, Ocean HY1 He wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Thanks for your comments! > > Lenovo SWRAID driver is a closed source driver at this time, I am afraid > it's not possible to submit it to kernel.
So you're violating our copyright and want help for that? Be ashamed!
> This patch is very important and critical for Lenovo next generation > Servers. I have tried to make sure this patch only impacts Lenovo > dedicated hardware and add a on/off boot option to end user who may > still wants using open source SWRAID(such as MDRAID).
The right ting is to always use mdraid and contribute the lenovo superblock format to it, similar to how we support half a dozen other non-native formats.
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