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

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Message-ID: <20091104110904.7ffc479b@s6510>
Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:09:04 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.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, Rakesh Ranjan <rakesh@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:54:07 +0530
Rakesh Ranjan <rakesh@...lsio.com> wrote:

> Mike Christie wrote:
> > Rakesh Ranjan wrote:
> >> Mike Christie wrote:
> >>> 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. 
> >>>
> >>> Is the idea to have iscsid/uip send down this msg?
> >>>
> >>> Was it not possible to hook in more like how bnx2i does dhcp?
> >>
> >> yep, idea is to have iscsid send down ISCSI_UEVENT_REQ_IPCONF msg.
> >> bnx2i approach in our case for at least T3 is not feasible.
> >>
> > 
> > I think adding DHCP in the kernel is getting a little crazy :) If we go
> > down this path, I agree with the other person that stated it should at
> > least be generic.
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> What do you mean be generic ? Do you want to have a generic interface
> for DHCP handler that could be part of libiscsi and could be used by
> other LLD's.

Is there anyway to make existing code (in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c) more generic
and useful for both?
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