netdev - Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver

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Message-ID: <71d336490806030524r6aa6fed6rdb166efb11385969@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:54:19 +0530
From:	"Ramachandra K" <ramachandra.kuchimanchi@...gic.com>
To:	"Roland Dreier" <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>, amar.mudrankit@...gic.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	poornima.kamath@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver

Roland,

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> wrote:
>  > And yes, multiple values per sysfs file are not allowed, sorry, please
>  > change this.  If you need to configure your device through an interface
>  > like this, consider using configfs instead, that is what it is there
>  > for.
>
> Makes sense... I know that the SRP initiator uses the method of multiple
> 'token=<value>' entries passed into sysfs, but the excuse is that SRP
> was merged before configfs.

OK. We will investigate moving the qlgc_vnic driver to configfs. What is the
deadline by which we need to be ready for a merge to 2.6.27 ?

Regards,
Ram
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