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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission (2ndtry)
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We are finally finishing up CT/ELS passthru in the FC transport; SCSI 
passthru exists, but via the scsi_generic driver (so it's not part of 
the transport or LLDD); and async event notification is already present 
in the fc transport.

-- james s

Jing Huang wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> It is encouraging to know that we can discuss and add new feature into
> existing fc transport. I guess this is opensource all about. I didn't
> have linux opensource experience before, so I was not quite sure how
> easy to request new features in fc transport such as mechanism to create
> multiple subdirectories for different level of statistics info in
> addition to the snia fc statitistics we already have, and other features
> such as CT/SCSI passthru and asynchronous event notification etc.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jing