>
> On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 18:15 +0000, Don Brace wrote:
> > > > - { 0x9005, 0x028f, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 65 }, /*
> > > > Adaptec PMC
> > > > Series 9 */
> > > >
> > > > How are people that load aacraid in their initrd going to boot
> > > > after this?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
> > >
> > > I updated smartpqi/Kconfig and added Documentation/scsi/smartpqi.txt
> > > to inform users of the need to configure the smartpqi driver moving
> > > forward for aacraid Series 9 controllers.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
>
> That's not going to be enough: this ID has been in the aacriad driver since
> 2011. That means anyone who finally gets hold of one of these new cards
> but uses a distro that doesn't have the new smartpqi driver will be attached
> via the aacraid one.
>
That's ok because for previous distros the new controller will work with the previous aacraid driver, although with non-optimal performance.
What we want to do is sync up at 4.9 so going forward only the new smartpqi driver will attach to these new controllers.
Scott
> Given that the life times of enterprise distributions is two years and you're
> releasing this smartpqi soon, the overlap is unavoidable.
>
> James
>
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