Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265557AbUAHQyZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:54:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265558AbUAHQyZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:54:25 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:41231 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265557AbUAHQyU (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:54:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:54:14 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Vasquez Cc: James Bottomley , Linux Kernel , Linux-SCSI Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b7). Message-ID: <20040108165414.A12233@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Vasquez , James Bottomley , Linux Kernel , Linux-SCSI References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com on Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:47:51AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1365 Lines: 33 On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:47:51AM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > Yes, given the structure and form of recent patches, that certainly > does seem to be the case - which from QLogic's standpoint (now) seems > to be the proper path. Just for clarification, given the structure of > the driver now (failover completely separated), inclusion of the > qla2xxx driver would exclude the following failover files: > > qla_fo.c qla_foln.c qla_cfg.c qla_cfgln.c > > correct? + qla_inioct.c qla_xioct.c and the associated headers for both the ioctl and failover code, of course > > - The odd ioctl set to the qla device...I'd much rather see something > > more standard that all FC drivers can use. > > > > Are you proposing to standardize a transport by which a user-space > application communicates with a driver (beyond IOCTLs), or, are you > suggesting there be some commonality in functional interfaces (i.e. > SNIA) for all FC drivers? the SNIA HBA-API spec is completely broken. But we should try to support a sanitized subset of the spec using the transport class work that's currently discussed on linux-scsi. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/