From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com
Cc: James.Bottomley@suse.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, lalit.chandivade@qlogic.com,
ravi.anand@qlogic.com, Jayamohan.Kallickal@Emulex.Com
Subject: Re: [RFC-V2 PATCH 4/5] iscsi_transport: show network configuration in sysfs
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:40:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA5294C.8040305@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA52525.3020405@cs.wisc.edu>
On 04/12/2011 11:23 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
> Do we want to make the kernel iscsi iface more generic or maybe just
> rename it to reflect it is just based on net settings?
>
> The issue with making it more generic is that with the current drivers,
> we do not care what info like the initiatorname in the kernel code. That
> is all handled in userspace because all the session management is there,
> so there is no point in adding that complexity here.
I take part of this back. We set the iscsi iface name and initiator name
on the session right now. We need that info for relogin type of
situations where iscsid might have died and we need to know the
initiatorname to use. We cannot read it from a disk, because that disk
might be the one are are relogging into.
It might not hurt to make the kernel's iscsi ifaces abstraction more
general.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-13 4:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-02 18:34 [RFC-V2 PATCH 0/5] Proposal for iSCSI Network Configuration vikas.chaudhary
2011-04-02 18:34 ` [RFC-V2 PATCH 1/5] iscsi_transport: add support for set_net_config vikas.chaudhary
2011-04-13 3:41 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-02 18:34 ` [RFC-V2 PATCH 2/5] qla4xxx: " vikas.chaudhary
2011-04-13 3:55 ` Mike Christie
[not found] ` <4DA51ECA.1020507-hcNo3dDEHLuVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-13 14:40 ` Vikas Chaudhary
2011-04-02 18:34 ` [RFC-V2 PATCH 3/5] qla4xxx: Added new "struct ipaddress_config" vikas.chaudhary
2011-04-02 18:34 ` [RFC-V2 PATCH 4/5] iscsi_transport: show network configuration in sysfs vikas.chaudhary
2011-04-13 4:23 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-13 4:40 ` Mike Christie [this message]
2011-04-13 14:48 ` Vikas Chaudhary
[not found] ` <5E4F49720D0BAD499EE1F01232234BA8728A8CB623-HolNjIBXvBOXx9kJd3VG2h2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-04-13 16:44 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-14 4:15 ` Vikas Chaudhary
2011-04-14 5:18 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-14 5:54 ` Vikas Chaudhary
2011-04-21 22:10 ` Jayamohan.Kallickal
2011-04-13 17:00 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-13 22:47 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-04-14 3:07 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-13 22:53 ` Michael Chan
2011-04-14 3:24 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-19 2:41 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-19 13:47 ` Vikas Chaudhary
2011-04-02 18:34 ` [RFC-V2 PATCH 5/5] qla4xxx: added support to show multiple iface " vikas.chaudhary
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