Re: [PATCH 16/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Added support for customer specific branding

From: Sreekanth Reddy
Date: Mon Jun 22 2015 - 08:28:08 EST


On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Added support for below customer specific brandings "VendorID"
>> "DeviceID" "SubsystemVendor ID" "SubsystemDevice ID" Cisco Branding
>> String 0x1000 0x97 0x1137 0x154 Cisco 9300-8i 12Gbps SAS HBA 0x1000
>> 0x97 0x1137 0x155 Cisco 12G Modular SAS Pass through Controller 0x1000
>> 0x97 0x1137 0x156 UCS C3X60 12G SAS Pass through Controller
>
> Same comment about not actually changing driver behavior.
>
> These changes belong in pci.ids, not in a driver.

Yes Martin, I agree with you that these changes belong in pci.ids. But
Customers are asking us to print the HBA branding name while loading
the driver on their custom HBA's.

>
> --
> Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering



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Regards,
Sreekanth
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