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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Wysochanski <davidw@netapp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SNIA iSCSI Management API Public Review
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:07:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041026210734.GA18479@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <417EBBD1.7090508@netapp.com>

> >it throws far too much things together, own type and object system,
> >functions to deal with firmware.  there's ill suited abstractions like
> >the phba, etc..
> >
> Sounds like you don't like the modelling.  Keep in mind that a
> lot of this came out of the T11 HBA API (for Fibre Channel HBAs
> and FC storage management).  Thus, the "phba" idea really fits
> the model well.  If you're thinking about it from a software
> only perspective, with standard ethernet NICs, it does look
> a little strange.

If you browse the archives you'll find my opinion on the HBA API ;-)


      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-26 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-26 18:29 SNIA iSCSI Management API Public Review Matt Domsch
2004-10-26 19:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-26 19:59   ` David Wysochanski
2004-10-26 20:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-26 21:04       ` David Wysochanski
2004-10-26 21:07         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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