From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Love, Robert W" Subject: Re: future FCoE ideas (Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reorganize libfcoe control interfaces) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:13:01 +0000 Message-ID: <5053659C.3060308@intel.com> References: <5052620C.7040006@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:35574 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751004Ab2INRNJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:13:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5052620C.7040006@intel.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: <7720AAB73321D846A9DE0507B7C1FDD8@intel.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Leech Cc: "devel@open-fcoe.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" T24gVGh1IDEzIFNlcCAyMDEyIDAzOjQ1OjMzIFBNIFBEVCwgTG92ZSwgUm9iZXJ0IFcgd3JvdGU6 DQo+IE9uIFRodSAxMyBTZXAgMjAxMiAwMzozMjo1MCBQTSBQRFQsIENocmlzIExlZWNoIHdyb3Rl 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