On 08/15/2017 05:39 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > 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. > Hmm ... considering this (and the fact that we now have the ->legacy_board switch) we can indeed remove that option. Will be redoing the patchset.
Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking [email protected] +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
