On 07/03/2017 09:50 AM, Sumit Saxena wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hannes Reinecke [mailto:hare@xxxxxxx] >> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 11:46 PM >> To: Christoph Hellwig >> Cc: Martin K. Petersen; James Bottomley; Kashyap Desai; Sumit Saxena; >> linux- >> scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 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. > I'd be willing to take over maintainership of the old megaraid_mbox driver; I'm working on moving PIO support into the megaraid_mbox code, and with that we can drop the old megaraid.c driver. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking hare@xxxxxxx +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)
