On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com> wrote: > > >>>>> "Sreekanth" == Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.re...@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 -- Regards, Sreekanth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
