>
> 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.
>
Understood. Although we believe that this change should be in sync with the addition of the new smartpqi driver.
Both drivers would be included in the initrd so the boot works. Again, we are mostly concerned about the 4.9 kernel going forward.
> >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.
That was the purpose of the smartpqi.txt file. Plus we are planning additional documentation when the new controllers are available to help with the
migration. And we are working with the distros beforehand to make sure the new drivers are in the right place.
Thanks,
Scott
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