[PATCH 0/3] nvme-fabrics: Add NVME FC Transport support to lpfc

[james.smart@broadcom.com (James Smart)]

On 8/11/2016 2:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016@05:24:00PM -0700, James Smart wrote:
>> This patchset adds NVME support to the lpfc FC driver.  It reworks
>> the core driver for both NVME and SCSI protocol support, then adds the
>> nvme-over-fabrics host and target interfaces which connect to the
>> NVME FC transport lower-level api.
>>
>> Patches are cut against the linux-nvme for-4.8/drivers branch
> Before reviewing the details:  what's the plan for merging this as we'll
> have dependencies on both the SCSI and the block tree?

Good question.   With the first round of lpfc patches, I tried to ensure 
we had all the cross-protocol infrastructure in place such that the 
driver can have 2 halves that effectively run independently.  I'm hoping 
it means that I can submit scsi stuff independent from nvme stuff, but 
we'll have to see how it goes over time.

I'm open to suggestions on how best to manage the 2 trees - e.g. scsi 
stuff goes in scsi tree, and if a dependency then has to be pulled into 
block ?  nvme stuff only to block.     The initial lpfc patch set should 
have all the scsi infrastructure pulled into the 4.8 merge, so hopefully 
that dependency has been resolved already.

-- james


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