From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934614AbcAZNYa (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:24:30 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:45745 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933342AbcAZNY2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:24:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 05:24:24 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ocean HY1 He Cc: One Thousand Gnomes , "tj@kernel.org" , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let AHCI dirver skip Lenovo SWRAID controller Message-ID: <20160126132424.GA1993@infradead.org> References: <1453691440-42035-1-git-send-email-hehy1@lenovo.com> <20160125131850.64c5c22a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <56A76999.8050206@lenovo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56A76999.8050206@lenovo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.