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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC host and target transport
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:23:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160811212336.GH18013@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5792b91f.Lb5BdNQrSWnmgOYG%james.smart@broadcom.com>

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 05:23:59PM -0700, James Smart wrote:
> 
> Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC host and target transport within
> nvme-fabrics
> 
> To aid in the development and testing of the lower-level api of the FC
> transport, this loopback driver has been created to act as if it were a
> FC hba driver supporting both the host interfaces as well as the target
> interfaces with the nvme FC transport.

A proper FC loop device should support SCSI and NVMe.  Any chance to
morph it into one that does both?

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC host and target transport
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 14:23:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160811212336.GH18013@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5792b91f.Lb5BdNQrSWnmgOYG%james.smart@broadcom.com>

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016@05:23:59PM -0700, James Smart wrote:
> 
> Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC host and target transport within
> nvme-fabrics
> 
> To aid in the development and testing of the lower-level api of the FC
> transport, this loopback driver has been created to act as if it were a
> FC hba driver supporting both the host interfaces as well as the target
> interfaces with the nvme FC transport.

A proper FC loop device should support SCSI and NVMe.  Any chance to
morph it into one that does both?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-11 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-23  0:23 [PATCH 5/5] nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC host and target transport James Smart
2016-07-23  0:23 ` James Smart
2016-08-03  0:15 ` J Freyensee
2016-08-03  0:15   ` J Freyensee
2016-08-22 17:14   ` James Smart
2016-08-22 17:14     ` James Smart
2016-08-11 21:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-08-11 21:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-22 17:29   ` James Smart
2016-08-22 17:29     ` James Smart

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