From: Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@redhat.com>
To: Doug Maxey <dwm@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: yaboot-devel@ozlabs.org, Linux PowerPC List <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] yaboot: enable boot from iscsi target via ethernet devices on js20.
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:46:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150123598.30925.9.camel@enki.eridu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606012056.k51KuUOP008931@falcon10.austin.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:56 -0500, Doug Maxey wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:40:30 CDT, Doug Maxey wrote:
> >>Is the , always guaranteed to be there - eg if I have boot
> >>eth1:iscsi,ISCSIARGS won't this check fail.
> >
> >Yes, with the above command line this would fail.
> >
> >My point of reference are the bindings that we cannot yet talk about
> >here, yet. The device args would always be followed by a comma. I suppose
> >that we could just reference the string "iscsi", but then some wag
> >would want to create some other property that included "iscsi" as a
> >substring. Maybe append a comma?
>
> Any preferences on this?
Both are kind of messy
> I have another, more radical solution.
>
> Adding a parser that understands the full device path and that can
> return the elements neatly packaged. Film at 11.
This sounds to be the better way to do things - and is probably more
generally useful for other node types. Do you have any ideas on this?
Paul
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-28 6:05 [PATCH] yaboot: enable boot from iscsi target via ethernet devices on js20 Doug Maxey
2006-05-16 20:20 ` Paul Nasrat
2006-05-16 20:40 ` Doug Maxey
2006-06-01 20:56 ` Doug Maxey
2006-06-12 14:46 ` Paul Nasrat [this message]
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