From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Smart Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission (2ndtry) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:07:48 -0400 Message-ID: <48DCC284.3040408@emulex.com> References: <200809260106.m8Q160kj028501@swe37.brocade.com> <20080926025514.GD9480@kroah.com> <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E01F28079@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> <1222408937.3265.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E01F280A3@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from emulex.emulex.com ([138.239.112.1]:54773 "EHLO emulex.emulex.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751635AbYIZLIT (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:08:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E01F280A3@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jing Huang Cc: James Bottomley , Greg KH , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , Ramkumar Vadivelu , "Srikanth Rayas (CW)" , Vinodh Ravindran We are finally finishing up CT/ELS passthru in the FC transport; SCSI passthru exists, but via the scsi_generic driver (so it's not part of the transport or LLDD); and async event notification is already present in the fc transport. -- james s Jing Huang wrote: > Hi James, > > It is encouraging to know that we can discuss and add new feature into > existing fc transport. I guess this is opensource all about. I didn't > have linux opensource experience before, so I was not quite sure how > easy to request new features in fc transport such as mechanism to create > multiple subdirectories for different level of statistics info in > addition to the snia fc statitistics we already have, and other features > such as CT/SCSI passthru and asynchronous event notification etc. > > Thanks > > Jing