Re: MPT2SAS boot fail... due to silently loosing the driver

From: James Bottomley
Date: Mon Nov 30 2015 - 12:27:39 EST


[cc to linux-scsi added]
On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 12:21 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Ingo" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
> + tristate "Legacy MPT2SAS config option"
> + default n
> + select SCSI_MPT3SAS
> + ---help---
> + Dummy config option for backwards compatiblity: configure the MPT3SAS
> + driver instead.
>
> That's fine with me.
>
> Sreekanth/Christoph/James: Any objections?

Looks OK, we probably need a removal timeframe for it as well. What
about removal in 4.6?

James



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