netdev - Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i

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Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:06:54 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Rakesh Ranjan <rakesh@...lsio.com>
Cc:	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>, davem@...emloft.net,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	Karen Xie <kxie@...lsio.com>,
	"open-iscsi@...glegroups.com" <open-iscsi@...glegroups.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 18:46 +0530, Rakesh Ranjan wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Herein attached patches for having dhcp provisioning support in
> cxgb3i. 
> I have added one new iscsi netlink message ISCSI_UEVENT_REQ_IPCONF. 
> Please have a look and share suggestions.
[...]

Why does cxgb3i need its very own DHCP client?  This seems like
something that's generically useful to firmware-based iSCSI adapters.

(It would be better still if this could be left to user-space, but
although a user-space program could send out requests on the net device
using the iSCSI device's MAC address, I don't see how it would get
replies.)

Ben.

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