From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Duncan Subject: [PATCHv2] Enable iBFT IPv6 booting with prefix length Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:15:49 -0800 Message-ID: Return-path: Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33932 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933381AbcBYSTU (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:19:20 -0500 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: hare@suse.de, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, konrad@kernel.org, Lee Duncan It turns out that IPv6 doesn't care about netmask, but instead uses "prefix length" to determine the subnet, but the iBFT subsystem still just supports netmask. These two patches enable IPv6 iBFT (iscsi booting) by adding support for IPv6 prefix and prefix length. Open-iscsi changes to use these new values will be introduced once these changes are present. Hannes Reinecke (1): iscsi_ibft: Add prefix-len attr and display netmask drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c | 4 ++++ drivers/scsi/iscsi_boot_sysfs.c | 5 +++++ include/linux/iscsi_boot_sysfs.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+) -- 1.8.5.2