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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	jayamohank@serverengines.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] RFC: The be2iscsi driver support for bsg
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:11:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA3E876.5000706@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100319081016W.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

On 03/18/2010 06:10 PM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:02:52 -0500
> Mike Christie<michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>  wrote:
>
>> On 03/18/2010 08:58 AM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>>
>>> - You invent your hardware specific data structure for the simplest
>>>     operation such as setting IP address.
>>
>> I think this is what Jay is not trying to do. I think the patch has some
>> extra code like the ISCSI_BSG_HST_VENDOR parts that makes it confusing -
>> it got me too. The ISCSI_BSG_HST_VENDOR code in be2iscsi looks like it
>> is basically disabled (should remove for a formal patch when he sends
>> for merging).
>>
>> It looks like there is a common struct iscsi_bsg_common_format that is
>> getting passed around, and then in be2iscsi the driver is using that
>> info to make a be2iscsi specific command. So scsi_transport_iscsi /
>> ISCSI_SET_IP_ADDR / iscsi_bsg_common_format  gets translated by b2iscsi
>> to b2iscsi / OPCODE_COMMON_ISCSI_NTWK_MODIFY_IP_ADDR / be_modify_ip_addr.
>
> Yeah, seems you are right. But looks like this patchset also adds the
> vendor specific message support (ISCSI_BSG_HST_VENDOR)?

Yeah, you are right. That should go in a separate patch and sent later.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-17 18:07 [PATCH 2/2] RFC: The be2iscsi driver support for bsg Jayamohan Kallickal
2010-03-18 13:58 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-03-18 21:02   ` Mike Christie
2010-03-18 23:10     ` FUJITA Tomonori
     [not found]       ` <20100319081016W.fujita.tomonori-Zyj7fXuS5i5L9jVzuh4AOg@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-19 12:56         ` James Smart
2010-03-22  8:57           ` FUJITA Tomonori
     [not found]             ` <20100322175704Y.fujita.tomonori-Zyj7fXuS5i5L9jVzuh4AOg@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-22 15:16               ` James Smart
2010-03-23 12:35                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-03-19 21:11       ` Mike Christie [this message]

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