* Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar writes:
>
> Ingo> So you need to make it interactive, with a short help text that
> Ingo> explains to users that this is legacy option only, and that they
> Ingo> should enable the MPT3SAS option if they want to configure things
> Ingo>
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Martin K. Petersen
wrote:
>
> > "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar writes:
>
> Ingo> So you need to make it interactive, with a short help text that
> Ingo> explains to users that this is legacy option only, and that they
> Ingo> should enable the MPT3SAS option if they w
[cc to linux-scsi added]
On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar writes:
>
> Ingo> So you need to make it interactive, with a short help text that
> Ingo> explains to users that this is legacy option only, and that they
> Ingo> should enable the
If that's been tested to work I'm fine with it.
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> "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar writes:
Ingo> So you need to make it interactive, with a short help text that
Ingo> explains to users that this is legacy option only, and that they
Ingo> should enable the MPT3SAS option if they want to configure things
Ingo> manually.
+config SCSI_MPT2SAS
+ tr
* Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> I guess we could do something like the following and let it sit for a
> release cycle to help people transition. Bit of a hack, but it worked
> for me in my quick testing...
So I'm not sure how this could have worked for you in testing: try to set the
MPT2SAS opti
* Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> > "Peter" == Peter Zijlstra writes:
>
> Peter> Please either create a fake MPT2SAS config that selects the
> Peter> MPT3SAS driver, or rename the whole thing to MPT23SAS such that
> Peter> we at least get a relevant question on oldconfig.
>
> Sorry about that
> "Peter" == Peter Zijlstra writes:
Peter> Please either create a fake MPT2SAS config that selects the
Peter> MPT3SAS driver, or rename the whole thing to MPT23SAS such that
Peter> we at least get a relevant question on oldconfig.
Sorry about that, Peter.
I get bitten by oldconfig all the t
* Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I wonder what the "classic" way to such transitions is. Adding a mpt2 option
> that just selects mpt3 sound easy, but might be very confusing.
I was hit by the same problem, and wasted some time on it before Peter did his
time wasting, so a solution would be nice
Send a patch so we can understand what you mean :)
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On 11/24/2015 08:51 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I wonder what the "classic" way to such transitions is. Adding a mpt2
> option that just selects mpt3 sound easy, but might be very confusing.
>
Personally, I would rename everything to 'mptXsas', and have the
original options map onto that.
Che
I wonder what the "classic" way to such transitions is. Adding a mpt2
option that just selects mpt3 sound easy, but might be very confusing.
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