Hannes, > here's now the second attempt to add support for legacy boards, ie for > boards previously supported by cciss only. With this patchset the > hpsa driver should work with all Smart Array boards if the > 'hpsa_allow_any' module option is set, rendering the cciss driver > obsolete. Consequently I've added a patch to remove the cciss driver > and make 'hpsa' an alias to 'cciss'.
How does the module alias solve the problem that hpsa_allow_any=1 needs to be added for users currently running cciss? I also fail to see what the point is of having an opt-in parameter when there is no alternative after cciss has been removed. It's a don't-be-broken switch. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
