From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:06:54 +0000 Message-ID: <1256825214.2827.10.camel@achroite> References: <4AE995C4.4080909@chelsio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mike Christie , davem@davemloft.net, James Bottomley , Karen Xie , "open-iscsi@googlegroups.com" , LKML , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Rakesh Ranjan Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AE995C4.4080909@chelsio.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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.