From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Varun Prakash Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/13] cxgbit: add files for cxgbit.ko Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 23:33:56 +0530 Message-ID: <20160708180354.GA1658@chelsio.com> References: <1464072025.22249.87.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <011401d1b6ac$917ea000$b47be000$@opengridcomputing.com> <1464238504.22249.168.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <20160526185819.GA1672@chelsio.com> <20160706171703.GA1685@chelsio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Received: from [12.32.117.8] ([12.32.117.8]:56511 "EHLO stargate.chelsio.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752461AbcGHSEL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2016 14:04:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Or Gerlitz Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , Steve Wise , target-devel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , kxie@chelsio.com, indranil@chelsio.com On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 10:54:20AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Varun Prakash wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:24:43AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: > >> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Varun Prakash wrote: > >> > >> > Hi Or, Nicholas and Steve > >> > Thank you for the feedback and apologies for the delay in my response. > >> > >> > I agree that we can refactor initiator, target and iwarp drivers to > >> > reduce code duplication as Steve has mentioned. We will work on this for > >> > 4.8 merge window. > >> > >> Nic, Varun, was anything done on this matter? we're on rc6 > > > > Yes, I am working on this, I will post first series > > within two days, it will add common library module libcxgb.ko. > > thanks for the update, the plan was to get that info 4.8-rc1, > and as we're after rc6 there's not much time left for submitting code > for 4.8, so doing that sooner rather than later would be good here. > > > In first series libcxgb.ko will have common > > iSCSI DDP Page Pod Manager that will be shared > > by three Chelsio iSCSI drivers > > cxgb3i, cxgb4i, cxgbit. > > cool > > > In subsequent series I will add common connection > > management and other hardware specific common code > > in this module. > > any chance to get that ready for 4.8 too? I am working on common connection management, it is a big change as it involves multiple modules, so it is difficult to get it ready for 4.8.