linux-kernel - Re: [REPOST PATCH] Add iSCSI IBFT support (v0.4)

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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:02:56 -0600
From:	Doug Maxey <dwm@...yolf.org>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad@...nok.org>
cc:	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>, darnok@....org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pjones@...hat.com,
	konradr@...hat.com, konradr@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, greg@...ah.com,
	randy.dunlap@...cle.com, hpa@...or.com, lenb@...nel.org,
	mike.anderson@...ibm.com, dwm@...tin.ibm.com,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [REPOST PATCH] Add iSCSI IBFT support (v0.4) 

[added cc: to mikec]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:40:46 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:26:40PM -0600, Doug Maxey wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:41:21 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
> > > > Is the current include from open-iscsi being duplicated?  If not, why
> > > > not consolidate in one file?
> > > 
> > > The include files that come from open-iscsi that are in the kernel do
> > > not have the iBFT data structures in them - therefore no duplication.
> > 
> > That is strictly true, at least the "in the kernel" part.  There is a 
> > file with the definitions, open-iscsi utils/fwparam_ibft/fwparam_ibft.h 
> > does have the previous definitons.  So what to do?  Drop that one?  Or 
> > keep duplicating?
> 
> I would say that utils/fwparam_ibft/fwparam_ibft.h and
> utils/fwparam_ibft/fwparam_ibft.c would be dropped once this kernel
> patch and the patch to open-iscsi to add fwparam_ibft_subsys.c are
> reviewed and hopefully accepted.
> 

Ok.  If indeed the userspace tool is going completely away, then there 
would be just the single instance.  Is that the plan?


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