Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:54:35 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Cc: michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjones@redhat.com,
        open-iscsi@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] RFC: iscsi ibft: separate ibft parsing from sysfs
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:20:29 -0400 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

> On Monday 12 April 2010 14:06:17 michaelc@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
> > From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
> >
> > Not all iscsi drivers support ibft. For drivers like be2iscsi
> > that do not but are bootable through a vendor firmware specific
> > format/process this patch moves the sysfs interface from the ibft code
> > to a lib module. This then allows userspace tools to search for iscsi boot
> > info in a common place and in a common format.
> >
> > ibft iscsi boot info is exported in the same place as it was
> > before: /sys/firmware/ibft.
> >
> > vendor/fw boot info gets export in /sys/firmware/iscsi_bootX, where X is
> > the scsi host number of the HBA. Underneath these parent dirs, the
> > target, ethernet, and initiator dirs are the same as they were before.
> >
> > This patch was made over the ibft-2.6 tree's ibft-1.03 branch:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=
> >refs/heads/ibft-1.03
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
> > ---
> Looks good to my eyes.
> 
> Let me run it tomorrow through my regression bucket before I stick on the git 
> tree.

Can we get this patch into linux-next, please?

or if it's there, there are still errors like this that need to be checked.

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~Randy
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