RE: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel
-Original Message- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:ax...@kernel.dk] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 5:36 PM To: Andrew Morton Cc: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); LKML-scsi; LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel On Thu, Oct 17 2013, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:52:26 -0500 Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com wrote: cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people outside of HP. It's amazing the weird stuff people get up to. Perhaps we should disable it in config for a cycle or two, see if that flushes anyone out? I think that would be prudent, you never know what people run... -- Jens Axboe I agree with Andrew's suggestion. Should I submit a patch that only removes cpqarray from config? -- mikem -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel
On 10/18/2013 10:22 AM, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: -Original Message- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:ax...@kernel.dk] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 5:36 PM To: Andrew Morton Cc: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); LKML-scsi; LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel On Thu, Oct 17 2013, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:52:26 -0500 Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com wrote: cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people outside of HP. It's amazing the weird stuff people get up to. Perhaps we should disable it in config for a cycle or two, see if that flushes anyone out? I think that would be prudent, you never know what people run... -- Jens Axboe I agree with Andrew's suggestion. Should I submit a patch that only removes cpqarray from config? I put one in yesterday: http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-block.git;a=commit;h=f504954db0ecccaded5397e3432cdaf7175602fb -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
RE: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel
-Original Message- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:ax...@kernel.dk] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 11:55 AM To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); Andrew Morton Cc: LKML-scsi; LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel On 10/18/2013 10:22 AM, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: -Original Message- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:ax...@kernel.dk] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 5:36 PM To: Andrew Morton Cc: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); LKML-scsi; LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel On Thu, Oct 17 2013, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:52:26 -0500 Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com wrote: cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people outside of HP. It's amazing the weird stuff people get up to. Perhaps we should disable it in config for a cycle or two, see if that flushes anyone out? I think that would be prudent, you never know what people run... -- Jens Axboe I agree with Andrew's suggestion. Should I submit a patch that only removes cpqarray from config? I put one in yesterday: http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux- block.git;a=commit;h=f504954db0ecccaded5397e3432cdaf7175602fb -- Jens Axboe Thanks, Jens. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:52:26 -0500 Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com wrote: cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people outside of HP. It's amazing the weird stuff people get up to. Perhaps we should disable it in config for a cycle or two, see if that flushes anyone out? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [PATCH 1/1] remove cpqarray from mainline kernel
On 10/17/2013 07:52 PM, Mike Miller wrote: From: Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people outside of HP. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller mike.mil...@hp.com Finally. All thumbs up for this. Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke h...@suse.de Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries Storage h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
