From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Varun Prakash Subject: Re: [RFC 14/34] iscsi-target: export symbols Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:43:55 +0530 Message-ID: <20160313121354.GA1648@chelsio.com> References: <4e5a7630ec492ff510404fb1ad0f011634518d04.1455467089.git.varun@chelsio.com> <20160301144921.GC9738@infradead.org> <20160302120044.GB1755@chelsio.com> <1457214847.28660.64.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <1457392974.30747.45.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <1457764113.4062.169.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1457764113.4062.169.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Sender: target-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "target-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "roland@kernel.org" , SWise OGC , Indranil Choudhury , Karen Xie , Hariprasad S List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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: > > > > > 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.