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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:38:16 -0800 From: "Anil Veerabhadrappa" <anilgv@...adcom.com> To: "Mike Christie" <michaelc@...wisc.edu> cc: "Mike Christie" <mchristi@...hat.com>, "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, open-iscsi@...glegroups.com, talm@...adcom.com, lusinsky@...adcom.com, uri@...adcom.com, "SCSI Mailing List" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2][BNX2]: Add iSCSI support to BNX2 devices. > >> The sysfs bits related to the hba should be use one of the scsi sysfs > >> facilities or if they are related to iscsi bits and are generic then > >> through the iscsi hba > > > > bnx2i needs 2 sysfs entries - > > 1. QP size info - this is used to size per connection shared data > > structures to issue work requests to chip (login, scsi cmd, tmf, nopin) > > and get completions from the chip (scsi completions, async messages, > > etc'). This is a iSCSI HBA attribute > > 2. port mapper - we can be more flexible on classifying this as either > > iSCSI HBA attribute or bnx2i driver global attribute > > Can hooks be added to iSCSI transport class to include these? > > > > Which ones were they exactly? I think JamesB wanted only common > transport values in the transport class. If it is driver specific then > it should go on the host or target or device with the scsi_host_template > attrs. > It's a chicken & egg issue to put "port mapper" sysfs entry in scsi host attributes. Application won't see sysfs unless initiator creates an iSCSI session and driver can't create an iSCSI session without a tcp port. I was wondering if there is a better way than using IOCTL in this situation? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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