linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:40:33 +0000
From:	"Altobelli, David" <david.altobelli@...com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"greg@...ah.com" <greg@...ah.com>,
	"James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com" 
	<James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	"jens.axboe@...cle.com" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver

> -----Original Message-----
> From: FUJITA Tomonori [mailto:fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp]
>
> This driver creates the own device file and user-space applications
> write a request data to the device file and read the response from it?

Yes, though I would include that the data for the read response is
supplied by the management processor.

> Would it be better to use the existing infrastructure (block/bsg.c) to
> do that? With bsg, you don't need to invent your fifo code to enqueue
> and dequeue requests.

I'm probably missing something, but I need that particular fifo code
to manage the device queues.
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