Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rangankar, Manish" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi: qedi: select UIO | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:00:54 +0000 |
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On 11/01/17 9:40 AM, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Ewan" == Ewan D Milne <emilne@redhat.com> writes: > >Ewan> Randy posted a similar patch back in December but I don't think >Ewan> there was ever a reply to Christoph's question about why qedi >Ewan> depends on uio. > >I did queue up Randy's patch to shut up the build warnings. But we're >still looking for a long term fix or an explanation as to why UIO is >needed in the first place.
Similar to bnx2i driver, qedi driver also has a dependency over iscsiuio to provide ARP and DHCP functionality for iscsi offload, and the communication to the driver is done via uio interface.
https://github.com/open-iscsi/open-iscsi/blob/master/iscsiuio/README
Thanks, Manish
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