From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Love, Robert W" Subject: Re: future FCoE ideas (Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reorganize libfcoe control interfaces) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:45:33 +0000 Message-ID: <5052620C.7040006@intel.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:15962 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750702Ab2IMWpo (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:45:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Leech Cc: "devel@open-fcoe.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" T24gVGh1IDEzIFNlcCAyMDEyIDAzOjMyOjUwIFBNIFBEVCwgQ2hyaXMgTGVlY2ggd3JvdGU6DQo+ IDxjdXR0aW5nIGRvd24gdGhlIENDIGxpc3QsIGFzIHRoaXMgYml0IGlzbid0IHJlYWxseSBhYm91 dCBwYXRjaCByZXZpZXcgYW55bW9yZT4NCj4NCj4+PiBUaGF0IGJlaW5nIHNhaWQsIEknbSBnbGFk 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