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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, robert.w.love@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Common header file for FC definitions
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:14:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108131403.GA9643@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080108080924.GA6993@schmichrtp.de.ibm.com>

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:09:36AM +0100, Christof Schmitt wrote:
> zfcp has a couple of definitions to describe the FC protocol. Grepping
> through the complete source tree shows that e.g. the lpfc module makes
> similar private definitions. It think that it would make sense to
> introduce a global header file for FC related definitions that each FC
> driver can use.
> 
> The attached patch contains some definitons that i found in zfcp and
> could be reused by other drivers.
> 
> What do others think? Would this be useful?

This is a very good idea.  It might make more sense to have the more or
less complete defintions for the fc protocol in the header.  Robert &
folks have been working on a software fc stack part as the fcoe header
so they might have one to contribute.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-08 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-08  8:09 [RFC] Common header file for FC definitions Christof Schmitt
2008-01-08 13:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-01-08 15:46   ` James Smart
2008-01-08 16:53     ` Christof Schmitt
2008-01-08 13:59 ` Seokmann Ju

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