>-----Original Message----- >From: Hannes Reinecke [mailto:h...@suse.de] >Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 11:46 PM >To: Christoph Hellwig >Cc: Martin K. Petersen; James Bottomley; Kashyap Desai; Sumit Saxena; >linux- >s...@vger.kernel.org; Hannes Reinecke >Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drop legacy megaraid controller > >On 06/30/2017 07:33 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 01:05:53PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>> The hardware is ancient, and support for most cards has been moved to >>> megaraid_mbox. So drop it. >> >> >> This seems to drop support for the PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMI_MEGARAID and >> PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMI_MEGARAID2 cards. Do we have any suggestions this >> code is so broken to not care anymore? Is there any reason why they >> can't just work with the megaraid_mbox driver? >> >Hmm. Probably no good reason at all. >I'll check which version I have here.
Hannes, We are willing to keep only megaraid_sas driver and intent is rest of megaraid* drivers (it includes megaraid, megaraid_mm, megaraid_mbox) should be removed. Broadcom(LSI) has stopped supporting hardware associated with these old drivers. Thanks, Sumit > >Cheers, > >Hannes >-- >Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking >h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 >SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg >GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 >(AG Nürnberg)
