From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, christopher.leech@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: storage address support
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:01:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090427.030103.88777540.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090424080349.30460.73770.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:03:50 -0700
> 2) Server Provided MAC Address (SPMA)
> The server indicates to the FCF the address it would like to use for FCoE
> traffic. It's expected that SPMA capable interfaces will have a storage
> dedicated MAC address programed into EPROM, flash, or other non-volatile
> storage which the driver will be able to provide to the FCoE stack.
>
> This adds a net_device_ops function to query a driver for a dedicated storage
> address.
>
> If ndo_get_storage_address is implemented, then the address will also be
> exposed as a sysfs attribute. In order to do that, a new optional attrs group
> is added to the net_device, with the visibility of each attribute protected by
> a call to netdev_show_optional_attr().
This should be what is currently provided in netdev->perm_addr[]
I really see no difference.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-27 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 8:03 [PATCH] netdev: storage address support Jeff Kirsher
2009-04-27 10:01 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-04-27 22:28 ` Chris Leech
2009-04-28 1:48 ` David Miller
2009-04-28 8:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-28 9:12 ` David Miller
2009-04-28 10:18 ` Jiri Pirko
2009-04-28 11:25 ` David Miller
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