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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com
Cc: jbottomley@parallels.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	lalit.chandivade@qlogic.com, ravi.anand@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] qla4xxx: Do not add duplicate CHAP entry in FLASH
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:40:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8A1DC7.8040803@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317662967-30110-5-git-send-email-vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>

On 10/03/2011 12:29 PM, vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com wrote:
> From: Lalit Chandivade <lalit.chandivade@qlogic.com>
> 
> QLogic applications store the CHAP information in FLASH. During login,
> authentication information is provided using an index into the CHAP region.
> 
> In order to support QLogic applications along with iscsiadm, updated the
> LLD to not add duplicate CHAP entries in the CHAP region and preserve the
> existing CHAP info in the CHAP region in FLASH.
> This allows QLogic applications to pre-write the CHAP entries in the CHAP
> region.
> 
> With iscsiadm, when the CHAP authentication information is sent to the LLD, the
> LLD searches for the entry in CHAP region in FLASH, if exists then do not add.
> If CHAP entry does not exist then add the CHAP entry in the CHAP region.
> 

Does the qlogic app use the bsg flash commands to send down everything
then or how does one app work differently and use the same driver for
everything else?


> +/**
> + * qla4xxx_get_chap_index - Get chap index given user name and secret
> + * @ha: pointer to adapter structure
> + * @username
> + * @secret

You forgot to write some info on those arguments.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-03 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03 17:29 [PATCH 00/13] qla4xxx: Patches for scsi-misc vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 01/13] qla4xxx: Add new FLT firmware region vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 02/13] qla4xxx: Update license vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 03/13] qla4xxx: Fix bidirectional CHAP vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 04/13] qla4xxx: Do not add duplicate CHAP entry in FLASH vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 20:40   ` Mike Christie [this message]
2011-10-03 20:41     ` Mike Christie
2011-10-04 17:13       ` Vikas Chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 05/13] qla4xxx: Fix exporting boot targets to sysfs vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 20:46   ` Mike Christie
2011-10-03 20:44     ` James Bottomley
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 06/13] qla4xxx: Free Device Database (DDB) reserved by FW vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 07/13] qla4xxx: Clear DDB map index on the basis of AEN vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 08/13] qla4xxx: Fixed session destroy issue on link up-down vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 09/13] qla4xxx: Fixed device blocked " vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 21:01   ` Mike Christie
2011-10-03 21:16     ` Mike Christie
2011-10-04 17:07       ` Vikas Chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 10/13] qla4xxx: Fixed active session re-open issue vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 11/13] qla4xxx: Fixed target discovery failed issue vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 12/13] qla4xxx: updated device id check for BFS vikas.chaudhary
2011-10-03 17:29 ` [PATCH 13/13] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k8 vikas.chaudhary

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