Hello Christoph, > -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 12:33 AM > To: Raghava Aditya Renukunta > Cc: Tomas Henzl; JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > Mahesh Rajashekhara; Murthy Bhat; Santosh Akula; Gana Sridaran; > aacraid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Rich Bono > Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] aacraid: Disable device ID wildcard > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 09:32:18PM +0000, Raghava Aditya Renukunta wrote: > > This will enable us to prevent aacraid from loading for PCI devices that > match > > device ID wildcards. Enabling us to use say a new driver for future devices. > > This looks like a bogus reason. The same PCI ID should always be > compatible and mathed by the same driver. Even if you add a new driver > to expose additional feature and break these semantics there is no point > to do a) reject them conditionally on a module option and b) do this > before said driver is merged. I have spoken with my team and it does make more sense to submit it when the new driver is merged. I will withdraw this patch. Regards, Raghava Aditya -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
