> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 6:35 AM > To: Don Brace > Cc: John Hall; Kevin Barnett; Mahesh Rajashekhara; Bader Ali-saleh; Scott > Teel; Viswas G; Justin Lindley; Scott Benesh; stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH] aacraid: remove wildcard for series 9 controllers > > EXTERNAL EMAIL > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:47:02PM -0600, Don Brace wrote: > > From: Kevin Barnett <kevin.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The ID we want to remove from the aacraid driver will not be available until > Q1 next year, > > so no customer currently has it yet. If they are running an older kernel, the > aacraid driver > > will support this ID but in 'sync' mode, their servers will continue to boot. > > > > If they upgrade to a newer kernel and do not know to configure the > smartpqi > > driver and the system fails to boot, they can fall back to the previous > > kernel and configure the smartpqi driver. > > > > This patch is for newer kernels going forward. We need to eliminate the > > duplication for newer kernels. If both drivers support the same ID > > they will have to know how to rebuild their initrd with a specific driver > > order. Customers that have servers configured with both older aacraid > devices > > and the newer smartpqi devices will definitely have to do this. Having to > > rebuild the kernel with smartpqi enabled would seem to be an easier > > customer experience. > > > > The officially supported driver for this ID is smartpqi. > > > > This patch has been applied to 4.10/scsi-queue > > What does this line mean? > > Have you read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to submit > patches to the stable tree? > > What should I do with this patch? Sorry about the confusion. This patch has been applied to 4.10 (ae2aae242198) and I would like to have it applied to 4.9. As it is, there will be an issue in 4.9 where the aacraid driver will claim smartpqi devices and fail to support it properly. > > thanks, > > greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html