RE: [PATCH] fcoe: prep work to completely remove fc_transport_fcoe code

Love, Robert W
2009-03-27T16:12:01Z

Robert Love wrote:
> From: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
>
> The fcoe transport code was added for generic FCoE transport
> infrastructure to allow additional offload related module loading
> on demand, this is not required anymore after recently added
> different offload approach by having offload related func ops
> in netdev.
>
> This patch removes fcoe transport related code use, calls functions
> directly between existing libfcoe.c and fcoe_sw.c for now, for
> example fcoe_sw_destroy and fcoe_sw_create calling.
>
> The fcoe_sw.c and libfcoe.c code will be further consolidated in
> later patches and then also the default fcoe sw transport code
> file fcoe_sw.c will be completely removed.
>
> The fcoe transport code files are completely removed in next
> patch to keep this patch simple for reviewing.
>
> --
>
> This patch is an update to a previous patch. This update
> resolves a build error as well as fixes a defect related to
> not calling fc_release_transport().
>
> The following updates to the other patches in the series
> are just adjustments to the changes this update introduces.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
> ---
>
Nothing has changed since these 4 updated pathces made it to
linux-scsi two days ago. I just misspelled James' e-mail
address in when I originally sent them.