From: Mike Christie <mikenc@us.ibm.com>
To: 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Surekha.PC" <surekhap@cisco.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, davmyers@cisco.com,
Richard Bealkowski <ennui@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Request for review of Linux iSCSI driver version 4.0.0.1
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:28:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F9FF8C7.70909@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031029134557.A17523@infradead.org>
Hi Surekha,
>>This is again needed for network boot. The n/w driver and iSCSI driver
>>are loaded during early boot. Since the n/w interface is not setup at
>>that time, we need to bring up the interface through this call in iSCSI
>>driver.
>
>
> That's bogus. Look at the ip autoconfig code used by rootnfs and reuse
> that instead of creating such bogus hacks. A driver has no business dealing
> with the network configuration.
>
Your driver does not even need to mess with that code. Just modify your
usersapce tools in the linux-iscsi package that run in the initrd to do
this in userspace.
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-29 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 12:04 Request for review of Linux iSCSI driver version 4.0.0.1 Krishna Murthy
2003-10-27 15:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-29 13:23 ` Surekha.PC
2003-10-29 13:45 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-10-29 17:28 ` Mike Christie [this message]
2003-10-29 18:45 ` Clay Haapala
2003-10-29 19:01 ` Mike Christie
2003-10-29 19:17 ` Clay Haapala
2003-10-29 19:33 ` Mike Christie
2003-10-30 23:42 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-10-30 13:34 ` jd
2003-11-11 11:56 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-11-11 17:36 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-11-19 12:40 ` Krishna Murthy
2003-11-19 12:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-11-19 13:38 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-11-11 17:40 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-06 9:42 ` Sachin Mhatre (smhatre)
2003-11-06 10:09 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-11-07 8:55 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-11-07 9:30 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-11-10 17:43 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-06 11:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-11-06 11:14 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-11-13 14:30 ` Sachin Mhatre (smhatre)
2003-11-13 14:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-11-19 13:04 ` Sachin Mhatre (smhatre)
2003-11-19 13:10 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-11-19 14:48 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-11-19 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-19 15:19 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-11-19 15:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-01 12:10 ` Krishna Murthy
2003-12-01 15:22 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-04 12:30 ` N.C.Krishna Murthy
2003-12-05 15:33 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-05 17:03 ` Brian King
2003-12-08 15:06 ` N.C.Krishna Murthy
2003-12-08 15:46 ` Scott M. Ferris
2003-12-10 15:01 ` N.C.Krishna Murthy
2003-12-10 16:50 ` Scott M. Ferris
2003-12-11 14:48 ` N.C.Krishna Murthy
2003-12-01 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-02 5:52 ` N.C.Krishna Murthy
2003-12-02 16:59 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-19 17:17 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-20 13:32 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-11-20 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-20 14:53 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-11-22 8:16 ` How to generate ILI condtion on a tape device Kallol Biswas
2003-11-24 8:31 ` Josef Möllers
2003-11-25 7:58 ` Kallol Biswas
2003-11-21 16:42 ` Request for review of Linux iSCSI driver version 4.0.0.1 Clay Haapala
2003-11-21 17:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-11-21 18:18 ` Clay Haapala
2003-11-26 13:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-24 6:09 ` Surekha.PC
2003-11-24 7:48 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-11-24 20:45 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-26 13:45 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2003-12-11 12:31 ` Naveen Burmi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-21 11:40 Shashi Kiran T.R
2003-11-21 17:56 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-12-01 12:30 Naveen Burmi
2003-12-01 14:08 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-12-01 18:48 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-12-01 19:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-12-01 16:20 ` Roman Zippel
2003-12-01 17:19 ` Scott M. Ferris
2003-12-01 20:06 ` Clay Haapala
2003-12-01 20:31 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-12-01 20:58 ` Clay Haapala
2003-12-02 3:46 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-12-02 12:02 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-12-02 13:57 ` Roman Zippel
2003-12-02 11:56 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-12-02 14:11 ` Roman Zippel
2003-12-02 16:37 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-02 17:42 ` Mike Anderson
2003-12-02 23:55 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-02 23:41 ` Clay Haapala
2003-12-03 14:06 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-12-03 15:09 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-03 17:03 ` Clay Haapala
2003-12-03 17:32 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-03 17:54 ` Mike Anderson
2003-12-03 20:31 ` Clay Haapala
2003-12-03 21:14 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-03 21:53 ` Scott M. Ferris
2003-12-03 22:57 ` Scott M. Ferris
2003-12-03 20:45 ` Clay Haapala
2003-12-03 21:19 ` James Bottomley
2003-12-11 11:21 ` Naveen Burmi
2003-12-03 22:15 ` Scott M. Ferris
2003-12-03 22:32 ` Clay Haapala
2003-12-03 23:24 ` Mike Anderson
2003-12-06 19:37 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-12-07 0:37 ` Roman Zippel
2003-12-11 0:12 Pat LaVarre
2003-12-11 14:50 N.C.Krishna Murthy
2003-12-11 15:47 N.C.Krishna Murthy
2003-12-12 12:48 ` Request " Matthew Wilcox
2003-12-12 15:29 ` N.C.Krishna Murthy
2003-12-13 2:46 ` Andre Hedrick
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