Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/10] staging: fnic2 add initialization | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:57:16 -0400 |
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Greg,
>> If you think that this driver doesn't belong in the drivers/staging >> community, we are happy to explore getting the driver fully ready on >> our side and getting it into the "proper" place. > > I'll take anything in staging as long as it has the correct license and > builds, that's not an issue :) But I do want to get agreement from the > SCSI maintainers that this is ok to have in this part of the kernel as > sometimes it can cause merge issues if there are core api changes.
This is the first I hear of fnic2.
My initial questions are: Why is a new driver necessary? Why can't the existing fnic driver be extended? And if it can't, what can be shared between the two drivers?
A good place to have that discussion would be on linux-scsi...
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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