On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 17:14 +0100, Tomas Henzl wrote: > On 27.1.2016 06:44, Sathya Prakash wrote: > > There is no fusion based network card and resources exists today in > > Avago(LSI) to test this patch so we prefer to leave it as is. We > > would > > like to prevent any new changes on MPT (FC/SCSI/SAS/LAN) drivers as > > we > > don't have support for those cards anymore, is there a way we > > could > > remove those drivers from newer kernels or mark them as > > unmaintained?. > > There still are users of some of those drivers (mptsas for example) > in certain distributions, so even if in fact they aren't > directly maintained, we should keep them in mainline.
Agreed: the last gen PA-RISC has a mptspi controller ... they'd get a bit annoyed if we remove it because they wouldn't be able to update their build machines to newer kernels. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
