Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:41:27 +0200 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b4). |
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On 2003-07-18T13:34:04, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> said:
> So what? Vendor ship all kinds of strange stuff and we can't really > keep the compat cruft for that around. And the mpio stuff in qla2xxx > is _lots_ of cruft.
The other points you mentioned preclude merging it into mainline right now anyway and needs fixing. Your comments there are spot on.
However, while I agree about this being cruft in qla2xxx, it is _used_. It's a driver / HBA feature which is actively deployed. I'd like to see it go sooner than later, but by blocking this feature you preclude those users of the driver from using the mainline one again, which is the entire point of this exercise.
Dropping such a feature needs some preparation to protect the users, and isn't justified by the personal dislikes of myself or you I'm afraid ;-)
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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