From: Thomas Renninger <trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
To: WANG Chao <chaowang-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>,
harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org,
initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
Pavel Wieczorkiewicz
<pwieczorkiewicz-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/33] 95iscsi: Autodetect iSCSI firmware
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:29:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1495590.WiuBmiIXgM@skinner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141121073255.GE2591-2coKmSd1Zb7VyFQaPrqbSRcY2uh10dtjAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
On Friday, November 21, 2014 03:32:55 PM WANG Chao wrote:
> On 11/21/14 at 07:51am, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > On 11/21/2014 06:43 AM, WANG Chao wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 11/20/14 at 03:56pm, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > >> From: Hannes Reinecke <hare-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
> > >>
> > >> Some iSCSI initiator present firmware information in
> > >> /sys/firmware/ibft or /sys/firmware/iscsi_bootX
> > >>
> > >> Whenever we detect one of those directories we should assume
> > >> that the iSCSI devices should be activated.
> > >>
> > >> Also incorporates SUSE patches:
> > >> 0049:
> > >> 95iscsi: Use 'ip=ibft' for ibft autoconfiguration
> > >>
> > >> For iBFT autoconfiguration we should be setting 'ip=ibft'
> > >> instead of rd.neednet. This should instruct dracut to only
> > >> enable the iBFT interfaces and leave the rest alone.
> > >
> > > I think,
> > >
> > > /sys/firmware/ibft is created for iBFT if detected.
> > > /sys/firmware/iscsi_bootX is created for hardware iSCSI if detected.
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > ibft is created whenever an iBFT section (either in system ROM
> > or via EFI) is detected.
> > iscsi_boot is created for be2iscsi devices, which use an iBFT-like
> > interface.
> >
> > Both provide the same attributes.
>
> Yes, they have same attributes.
The same sysfs attributes?
> But IIRC iBFT is provided by ACPI or EFI and the other is provided by
> HBA's firmware. Right?
But this should not matter.
If the kernel differs both APIs and provides a unified sysfs interface,
not differing in userspace again would be the right thing to do.
Thomas
PS: I continue to collect missing patches tomorrow and do a big resend...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-10 16:29 UTC|newest]
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2014-11-20 14:56 SUSE patches which should show up mainline Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-1-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 01/33] mkinitrd-suse: Update to sles12 SUSE state Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 02/33] Update dracut manpage for GRUB Legacy and GRUB2 Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-3-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-26 5:32 ` Dave Young
[not found] ` <20141126053216.GE3505-4/PLUo9XfK+sDdueE5tM26fLeoKvNuZc@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-10 15:08 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 03/33] 00warpclock: Set correct timezone Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-4-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-26 5:36 ` Dave Young
2014-11-26 5:52 ` WANG Chao
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 04/33] systemd always tries to load autofs4 Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 05/33] Fixup mdraid setup Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 06/33] 95udev-rules: Include correct sg3_utils rules Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 07/33] 90multipath: install correct multipath rules Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 08/33] 90multipath: Install libgcc_s library Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-9-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 12:25 ` Harald Hoyer
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 09/33] 90multipath: Load device_handler modules early during boot Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-10-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 12:25 ` Harald Hoyer
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 10/33] 90multipath: install dracut-specific service file Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-11-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-25 12:26 ` Harald Hoyer
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 11/33] 95iscsi: Autodetect iSCSI firmware Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-12-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-21 5:43 ` WANG Chao
[not found] ` <20141121054311.GD2591-2coKmSd1Zb7VyFQaPrqbSRcY2uh10dtjAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-21 6:51 ` Hannes Reinecke
[not found] ` <546EE10A.5010606-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-21 7:32 ` WANG Chao
[not found] ` <20141121073255.GE2591-2coKmSd1Zb7VyFQaPrqbSRcY2uh10dtjAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2014-12-10 16:29 ` Thomas Renninger [this message]
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 12/33] 95iscsi: Install libgcc_s library Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 13/33] 95iscsi: Set correct iscsi_started value for iSCSI firmware Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 14/33] 95iscsi: strip one set of quotes when calling initqueue Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 15/33] 95iscsi: Fixup bnx2i offload booting Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 16/33] 95iscsi: More empty cmdline fixes Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 17/33] 95iscsi: generate commandline for software iscsi Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 18/33] iscsi: iscsi.initiator and others can and must only show up once Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 19/33] Restore original IFS value Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-20-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-21 9:10 ` Harald Hoyer
[not found] ` <546F019E.2030906-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-21 10:53 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-11-21 12:37 ` Harald Hoyer
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 20/33] Implement 'rd.timeout' to modify the device timeout Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 21/33] Do not call 'lvm' for non-LVM device-mapper devices Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 22/33] Print stored dracut commandline during initramfs build Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 23/33] Align dev_unit_name() with systemd's function Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:56 ` [PATCH 24/33] Generate fallback mount unit for root filesystem Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 25/33] 99base: warn on invalid command for initqueue Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 26/33] Handle module alias properly Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 27/33] 99base: Increase initqueue timeout in non systemd case Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 28/33] 90lvm: Install dm-snapshot module Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 29/33] Check for logfile (--logfile option) and create it if necessary Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 30/33] dracut.sh: Avoid duplicate devices in host_devs Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 31/33] dracut.sh: Fix UUID= fstab parsing in case --mount option is passed Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 32/33] dracut.usage.asc: Remove distro specific help from manpage Thomas Renninger
2014-11-20 14:57 ` [PATCH 33/33] nfs: Add ip=... and root=nfs... parameters to internal dracut Thomas Renninger
[not found] ` <1416495428-36978-34-git-send-email-trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-21 9:26 ` Harald Hoyer
[not found] ` <546F0546.8080007-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-21 10:34 ` Thomas Renninger
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