From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757704AbZKDSYV (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:24:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757316AbZKDSYV (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:24:21 -0500 Received: from stargate.chelsio.com ([67.207.112.58]:30722 "EHLO stargate.chelsio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754762AbZKDSYU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 13:24:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF1C6C7.80103@chelsio.com> Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:54:07 +0530 From: Rakesh Ranjan Organization: Chelsio Communications User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090825) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Christie CC: davem@davemloft.net, James Bottomley , Karen Xie , "open-iscsi@googlegroups.com" , LKML , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rakesh Ranjan Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i References: <4AE995C4.4080909@chelsio.com> <4AEA04A4.1060800@cs.wisc.edu> <4AEA7870.4010804@chelsio.com> <4AEF6FC4.6060208@cs.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4AEF6FC4.6060208@cs.wisc.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Nov 2009 18:26:20.0109 (UTC) FILETIME=[4E194FD0:01CA5D7C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Christie wrote: > Rakesh Ranjan wrote: >> Mike Christie wrote: >>> Rakesh Ranjan wrote: >>>> Hi Mike, >>>> >>>> Herein attached patches for having dhcp provisioning support in >>>> cxgb3i. I have added one new iscsi netlink message >>>> ISCSI_UEVENT_REQ_IPCONF. >>> >>> Is the idea to have iscsid/uip send down this msg? >>> >>> Was it not possible to hook in more like how bnx2i does dhcp? >> >> yep, idea is to have iscsid send down ISCSI_UEVENT_REQ_IPCONF msg. >> bnx2i approach in our case for at least T3 is not feasible. >> > > I think adding DHCP in the kernel is getting a little crazy :) If we go > down this path, I agree with the other person that stated it should at > least be generic. Hi Mike, What do you mean be generic ? Do you want to have a generic interface for DHCP handler that could be part of libiscsi and could be used by other LLD's. Regards Rakesh Ranjan