Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b7). | Date | Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:29:03 -0800 | From | "Andrew Vasquez" <> |
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On Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:54 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:47:51AM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > > 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 >
Yes, no IOCTLs...
> > 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. >
I'll excuse myself from the API debate and take a look at the transport class infrastructure being proposed.
-- Andrew Vasquez
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