From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] - mptfusion - FC Transport Support Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:27:41 -0400 Message-ID: <1120138061.5125.3.camel@mulgrave> References: <9BB4DECD4CFE6D43AA8EA8D768ED51C20F4140@xbl3.ma.emulex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from stat16.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.48]:37774 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262968AbVF3N1z (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:27:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9BB4DECD4CFE6D43AA8EA8D768ED51C20F4140@xbl3.ma.emulex.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James.Smart@Emulex.Com Cc: Eric.Moore@lsil.com, SCSI Mailing List On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:34 -0400, James.Smart@Emulex.Com wrote: > To be honest, if I could have killed it (target-based object > in sysfs), I would have as part of the FC transport rework. There was > unfortunately too many app side things (udev, etc) that refer to it. > This object is really a lame-duck. Surely udev is about the only problem ... and we should be able to persuade Greg to change easily enough. It does seem that all of the port information belongs in the rport, and so the attributes should be deprecated and eventually eliminated. Are you planning to do this? James