From: "Rangankar, Manish" <Manish.Rangankar@cavium.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
"Ewan D. Milne" <emilne@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Dept-Eng QLogic Storage Upstream
<QLogic-Storage-Upstream@cavium.com>,
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
"Javali, Nilesh" <Nilesh.Javali@cavium.com>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: qedi: select UIO
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:00:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D49BF0E9.3633C%manish.rangankar@cavium.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq137gqs0cd.fsf@oracle.com>
On 11/01/17 9:40 AM, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
wrote:
>>>>>> "Ewan" == Ewan D Milne <emilne@redhat.com> writes:
>
>Ewan> Randy posted a similar patch back in December but I don't think
>Ewan> there was ever a reply to Christoph's question about why qedi
>Ewan> depends on uio.
>
>I did queue up Randy's patch to shut up the build warnings. But we're
>still looking for a long term fix or an explanation as to why UIO is
>needed in the first place.
Similar to bnx2i driver, qedi driver also has a dependency over iscsiuio
to provide ARP and DHCP functionality for iscsi offload, and the
communication to the
driver is done via uio interface.
https://github.com/open-iscsi/open-iscsi/blob/master/iscsiuio/README
Thanks,
Manish
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-10 15:27 [PATCH] scsi: qedi: select UIO Arnd Bergmann
2017-01-10 18:44 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-10 20:19 ` Ewan D. Milne
2017-01-11 4:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-01-11 9:00 ` Rangankar, Manish [this message]
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