On September 8, 2016 2:33:52 PM EDT, Scott Benesh <scott.benesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
Not after this change hits. Then systems that only have aacraid in the initrd will fail to boot.
>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.
So you have a plan in place with the distros to migrate the initrd images? Without being told, some will only install the modules the previous initrd was configured for.
James
>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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