Re: [PATCH] zfcp: updates for -bk

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 19:10 +0100, Martin Peschke3 wrote:
> Actually, you will find the adapter structure be an anchor for several
> other objects, or lists of them respectively. We tried to organize
> all the driver private data in a sane way. That means there is a tree
> of objects representing the SAN topology, including target ports and
> subordinate LUNs, many of which have an associated mid-layer structure.
> I can't imagine that anybody would ever argue to collapse all that into
> the adapter structure. So, why all the fuss about this particular object?
> The generic services object has nothing to do with the adapter. It's about
> fabric switch services, or certain well-known FC (target) ports, which can
> be accessed in the fabric through an adapter. It's not local but remote,
> like other targets, so to speak. We might also have chosen to call it
> "fabric switch".

OK, take a look at this:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=110546207223304

and tell me if it does everything you need.  If it doesn't, you could
try adding all the other bits to the fc transport class.

James