Re: [RFC 14/34] iscsi-target: export symbols

[Varun Prakash <varun@chelsio.com>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:28:33PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> Hi Varun & Co,
> 
> On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 15:22 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> > So obviously this is going to take longer to sort out, and likely not
> > end up being v4.6-rc1 material.  That is OK, as the end result will be
> > better code.  :)
> > 
> > That said, it would make sense do the initial merge of the
> > drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/ + PPM prerequisites changes for
> > v4.6, and as many basic prerequisites for iscsi-target for ISO as
> > possible in the short time we have.
> > 
> > Wrt to drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/ changes, please have person
> > from Chelsio give their 'Reviewed-by' and 'Signed-off-by' to this
> > initial series, and make sure they get posted as stand-alone patches
> > ASAP to net-dev w/ DaveM in the loop.
> > 
> > I'm still happy to push these via target-pending/for-next-merge to get
> > the ball rolling for post v4.6 development, as long as they have the
> > extra reviews + signed-off-by from Chelsio folks, and DaveM doesn't have
> > any objections.
> > 
> 
> The drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/ prerequisites for supporting
> iscsi segment offload (ISO) + page pod manager (PPM) are in
> target-pending/for-next-merge, and patches #13+ have been dropped
> for initial v4.6-rc1 merge.
> 
> Also, there haven't been any further linux-next subsystem merge failures
> beyond the initial t4fw_api.h conflict as reported by SFR.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/29/34
> 
> So please go ahead and post stand-alone cxgb4 driver changes for
> initial ISO + PPM to net-dev + target-devel, and Hariprasad should
> review + ack these ASAP.

Yes, I will post cxgb4 patch series, thanks.