linux-drivers/
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx

QLogic / Marvell Fibre Channel HBAs (ISP2xxx and 2600/2700-series)

QLogic-branded Fibre Channel host bus adapters used to connect servers to enterprise SAN storage over 1G through 32G/64G Fibre Channel links. The family spans late-1990s ISP21xx/22xx cards through current Marvell-sold QLogic 2690, 2740/2760, and 2770 series adapters, with newer models also handling FC-NVMe.

keep conf=0.95 deploy=medium replacement=none subsystem=scsi category=storage-scsi-ata
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recommendation

It should stay in the kernel because the hardware is still actively sold by Marvell in 2025 for enterprise storage networking, and the driver is under heavy ongoing maintenance — including Marvell-authored patch series in late 2025 and stable-tagged bug fixes landing as recently as 2026. There is no replacement driver for these adapters, so removing it would strand a large installed base of SAN-attached servers.

repository signals

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sources

  1. lore.kernel.org

    Recent 2026 qla2xxx bug-fix patch with Fixes and Cc: stable shows active upstream maintenance rather than abandonment.

  2. lore.kernel.org

    Marvell-authored 2025 qla2xxx patch series shows ongoing vendor involvement in the driver.

  3. marvell.com

    Marvell still markets a current QLogic Fibre Channel adapter portfolio, including 2690, 2740/2760, and 2770 series adapters.

  4. marvell.com

    The QLogic 2770 Series product page shows new Marvell/QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs still being sold/marketed in the current period.

codex reasoning notes (technical)

Shell inspection of local Kconfig/headers shows this is the in-tree QLogic Fibre Channel PCI/PCIe HBA driver, spanning legacy ISP21xx-25xx firmware families and newer FC/NVMe-capable hardware. lore_activity on drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c returned active 2025-2026 fix traffic, including stable-targeted fixes and Marvell-authored work; no removal/deprecation signal appeared in the sampled recent lore. The Marvell URLs were obtained via web search and show the vendor still advertises current QLogic FC adapter families, so this is not legacy-only hardware. Because the driver has heavy recent maintenance and serves still-sold enterprise SAN HBAs, there is no natural upstream replacement driver for the same hardware family; keep it.