Re: [RFC] [PATCH] qla4xxx driver resubmission

[David C Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com>]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 11:30 -0700, David Somayajulu wrote:
> This is a resubmission of the qla4xxx driver for QLogic Corporation's
> iSCSI HBAs. Changes from the previous submission are:
> 
> - fixed driver initialization issues during insmod
> - removed all references to iSNS
> - changed comments for function to doc style
> - removed potential infinite loop in ql4xxx_sem_spinlock()
> 
> The complete patch for the driver is at
> ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/iSCSI/upstream/5.00.05b8-k/0000-Init
> ial-commit-of-qla4xxx.txt
> 
Sorry, my mailer screwed up the above link. Here it is again
ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/iSCSI/upstream/5.00.05b8-k/0000-Initial-commit-of-qla4xxx.txt

> 
> For ease of comprehension the above patch has been broken down into the
> following smaller patches:
> - 0001-ISP4xxx-driver-definitions.diff
> - 0002-ISP4xxx-driver-initialization-routines.diff
> - 0003-ISP4xxx-driver-OS-files.diff
> - 0004-ISP4xxx-driver-ISR-routines.diff
> - 0005-ISP4xxx-driver-Mailbox-routines.diff
> - 0006-ISP4xxx-driver-support-routines.diff 
> - 0007-ISP4xxx-driver-version.diff
> These are located at
> ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/iSCSI/upstream/5.00.05b8-k/
> 
> Other items which needs to be done are
>  - Add support for sysfs attributes.
>  - Userspace support for session creation/deletion for iscsi HBAs.
>  - Add support for other discovery mode ie iSNS/SLP.
>  - block layer tagging 
>  Patches for these would be submitted once the driver is merged
> upstream.
> 
> Looking forward to comment's/feedback.

I appologize for the inconvenience.

Cheers
David Somayajulu
qLogic Corporation.