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SubjectRe: device support in hpasa, was: Re: OOPS from cciss_ioctl in 4.12+git
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On 07/07/2017 05:03 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 07/07/2017 09:00 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 12:55:04PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
>>>> Also we're trying to move people away from the cciss driver, can you
>>>> check if the hpsa SCSI driver works for you as well?
>>>
>>> I have older adapter:
>>>
>>> Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 64xx [0e11:0046] (rev 01)
>>>
>>> That does not seem to be supported by hpsa AFAICS.
>>
>> Looks like. Although hpsa has support for various SA5 controllers
>> it seems like it decided to skip all Compaq branded controllers.
>>
>> As far as I can tell we could simply add support for those to
>> hpsa. Ccing hpsa folks to figure out if that's the case.
>
> Pretty sure Hannes had a patch he tested for that, he talked about
> that back at LSFMM earlier this year. Hannes?
>
Oh, I do.
hpsa is working happily on SLES for _all_ SmartArray controllers.
You need to enable 'hpsa_allow_any=1', though.
But I'm perfectly happy with making that the default and drop cciss
completely.

Cheers,

Hannes
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