From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b7).
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:54:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040108165414.A12233@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B179AE41C1147041AA1121F44614F0B060EDD4@AVEXCH02.qlogic.org>; from andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com on Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:47:51AM -0800
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:47:51AM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> Yes, given the structure and form of recent patches, that certainly
> does seem to be the case - which from QLogic's standpoint (now) seems
> to be the proper path. Just for clarification, given the structure of
> the driver now (failover completely separated), inclusion of the
> qla2xxx driver would exclude the following failover files:
>
> qla_fo.c qla_foln.c qla_cfg.c qla_cfgln.c
>
> correct?
+ qla_inioct.c qla_xioct.c
and the associated headers for both the ioctl and failover code, of course
> > - The odd ioctl set to the qla device...I'd much rather see something
> > more standard that all FC drivers can use.
> >
>
> Are you proposing to standardize a transport by which a user-space
> application communicates with a driver (beyond IOCTLs), or, are you
> suggesting there be some commonality in functional interfaces (i.e.
> SNIA) for all FC drivers?
the SNIA HBA-API spec is completely broken. But we should try to support
a sanitized subset of the spec using the transport class work that's
currently discussed on linux-scsi.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-08 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-08 16:47 [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b7) Andrew Vasquez
2004-01-08 16:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-01-08 19:33 ` Mike Anderson
2004-01-08 19:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-08 19:57 ` Mike Anderson
2004-01-08 20:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-08 22:11 ` Mike Anderson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-08 19:29 Andrew Vasquez
2003-12-06 1:15 Andrew Vasquez
2003-12-09 13:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-29 17:32 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-05 20:52 Andrew Vasquez
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