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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Rakesh Ranjan <rakesh@chelsio.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	davem@davemloft.net, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	Karen Xie <kxie@chelsio.com>,
	"open-iscsi@googlegroups.com" <open-iscsi@googlegroups.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:06:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1256825214.2827.10.camel@achroite> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE995C4.4080909@chelsio.com>

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 18:46 +0530, 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. 
> Please have a look and share suggestions.
[...]

Why does cxgb3i need its very own DHCP client?  This seems like
something that's generically useful to firmware-based iSCSI adapters.

(It would be better still if this could be left to user-space, but
although a user-space program could send out requests on the net device
using the iSCSI device's MAC address, I don't see how it would get
replies.)

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29 13:16 [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i Rakesh Ranjan
2009-10-29 14:06 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
     [not found] ` <4AE995C4.4080909-ut6Up61K2wZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-10-29 21:09   ` Mike Christie
2009-10-30  5:24     ` Rakesh Ranjan
2009-11-02 23:48       ` Mike Christie
2009-11-04 18:24         ` Rakesh Ranjan
2009-11-04 19:09           ` Stephen Hemminger

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