Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Oct 2009 11:22:49 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers. |
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 14:16:26 -0500 Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> 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, et al., > >From the lack of response I'm guessing my reply about phasing cciss out > completely did not go over well. Or is that what the question meant? > > We purposely limited controller support in hpsa to try and prevent problems > in the field. What's needed to get hpsa accepted? Add support for all > hardware? > > While we do not want to maintain 2 drivers indefinitely we (HP) must > continue to support cciss for some years to come. > > Any guidance is appreciated. >
Well, obviously it's neater if we can retire the old driver. Sometimes life isn't neat. We had a similar situation with e1000-vs-e1000e. And with e100-vs-eepro100, although eepro100 went away after many years.
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