Re: [PATCH] Add hpsa driver for HP Smart Array controllers.

[Hannes Reinecke]

Mike Miller 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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,
> The hpsa driver supports only the latest generation of Smart Array
> controllers plus the P400 and P800. The goal was to have minimal overlap but
> if we included only the very latest I suspect little testing would be done
> because of the availability of new hardware.
>
> No new controllers will be added to cciss once hpsa is accepted. We're
> looking at supporting both drivers for 3 or 4 years until cciss can be
> phased out completely.
Yeah!

Thanks, Mike and Stephen, for the effort you put into this.
Very much appreciated.

Cheers,

Hannes
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