linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/14] scsi: fnic: Add and integrate support for FIP

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Message-ID: <43b8bd73-efca-45b0-9526-3c19c8cb3713@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:47:56 +0200
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To: Karan Tilak Kumar <kartilak@...co.com>, sebaddel@...co.com
Cc: arulponn@...co.com, djhawar@...co.com, gcboffa@...co.com,
 mkai2@...co.com, satishkh@...co.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
 martin.petersen@...cle.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/14] scsi: fnic: Add and integrate support for FIP

On 6/10/24 23:50, Karan Tilak Kumar wrote:
> Add and integrate support for FCoE Initialization
> (protocol) FIP. This protocol will be exercised on
> Cisco UCS rack servers.
> Add support to specifically print FIP related
> debug messages.
> Replace existing definitions to handle new
> data structures.
> Clean up old and obsolete definitions.
> 
Aren't you getting a bit overboard here?

I am _positive_ that the original fnic driver _did_ do FIP.
What happened to that?
Why can't you just use that implementation?

And if you can't use that implementation, shouldn't this rather be
a new driver instead of replacing most if not all functionality of
the original fnic driver?

Cheers,

Hannes
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