Re: [PATCH] Let AHCI dirver skip Lenovo SWRAID controller

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:42:43PM +0000, Ocean HY1 He wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Thanks for your comments!
> 
> Lenovo SWRAID driver is a closed source driver at this time, I am afraid 
> it's not possible to submit it to kernel.

So you're violating our copyright and want help for that?  Be ashamed!

> This patch is very important and critical for Lenovo next generation 
> Servers. I have tried to make sure this patch only impacts Lenovo 
> dedicated hardware and add a on/off boot option to end user who may 
> still wants using open source SWRAID(such as MDRAID).

The right ting is to always use mdraid and contribute the lenovo
superblock format to it, similar to how we support half a dozen other
non-native formats.