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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Oliver Smith-Denny <osmithde@cisco.com>,
	Sesidhar Baddela <sebaddel@cisco.com>,
	Gian Carlo Boffa <gcboffa@cisco.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] staging: fnic2 add initialization
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:57:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1r2no3xoz.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180407060901.GA18744@kroah.com> (Greg Kroah-Hartman's message of "Sat, 7 Apr 2018 08:09:01 +0200")


Greg,

>> If you think that this driver doesn't belong in the drivers/staging
>> community, we are happy to explore getting the driver fully ready on
>> our side and getting it into the "proper" place.
>
> I'll take anything in staging as long as it has the correct license and
> builds, that's not an issue :)  But I do want to get agreement from the
> SCSI maintainers that this is ok to have in this part of the kernel as
> sometimes it can cause merge issues if there are core api changes.

This is the first I hear of fnic2.

My initial questions are: Why is a new driver necessary? Why can't the
existing fnic driver be extended? And if it can't, what can be shared
between the two drivers?

A good place to have that discussion would be on linux-scsi...

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-09 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-05 21:15 [PATCH 00/10] staging: fnic2 Driver Introduction Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-05 21:16 ` [PATCH 01/10] staging: fnic2 add initialization Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-06  5:07   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-06 22:00     ` Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-07  6:09       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-09 19:49         ` Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-09 20:57         ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2018-04-12 17:32           ` Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-05 21:17 ` [PATCH 02/10] staging: fnic2 add resource allocation Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-06  5:08   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-05 21:18 ` [PATCH 03/10] staging: fnic2 add fip handling Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-06  5:08   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-05 21:19 ` [PATCH 04/10] staging: fnic2 add fdls system Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-05 21:20 ` [PATCH 05/10] staging: fnic2 add LIO interface Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-05 21:21 ` [PATCH 06/10] staging: fnic2 add main frame processing Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-05 21:21 ` [PATCH 07/10] staging: fnic2 add queue descriptors Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-05 21:22 ` [PATCH 08/10] staging: fnic2 add vnic queue interface Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-05 21:23 ` [PATCH 09/10] staging: fnic2 add vnic handling Oliver Smith-Denny
2018-04-05 21:24 ` [PATCH 10/10] staging: fnic2 add build and config Oliver Smith-Denny

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