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From: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
To: Anil Veerabhadrappa <anilgv@broadcom.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, talm@broadcom.com,
	lusinsky@broadcom.com, uri@broadcom.com,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2][BNX2]: Add iSCSI support to BNX2 devices.
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:17:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47448442.7040308@emulex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1195670296.8767.9.camel@dhcp-10-13-106-205.broadcom.com>


Anil Veerabhadrappa wrote:
> It's a chicken & egg issue to put "port mapper" sysfs entry in scsi host
> attributes. Application won't see sysfs unless initiator creates an
> iSCSI session and driver can't create an iSCSI session without a tcp
> port. I was wondering if there is a better way than using IOCTL in this
> situation?

Agree, and IMHO, is why the scsi_host should have been bound to the ISID
or something similar (e.g. the initiator "port" that can have 1 or more
sessions), and the session bound to the scsi_target under the scsi_host.

-- james s

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-21 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1188599815.5176.12.camel@dell>
2007-09-05 18:34 ` [PATCH v3 2/2][BNX2]: Add iSCSI support to BNX2 devices Mike Christie
2007-09-05 21:27   ` Anil Veerabhadrappa
2007-09-07 22:23     ` Mike Christie
2007-11-21 18:38       ` Anil Veerabhadrappa
2007-11-21 19:17         ` James Smart [this message]
     [not found]         ` <1195670296.8767.9.camel-opBMJL+S1+mb6IhXEaeG+wpgy58w7zIFpWgKQ6/u3Fg@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-27  4:15           ` Mike Christie
2007-11-28  0:44             ` Anil Veerabhadrappa
     [not found]               ` <1196210691.5980.20.camel-opBMJL+S1+mb6IhXEaeG+20Cxg0+/0ngpWgKQ6/u3Fg@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28 20:06                 ` Mike Christie
2007-11-29  0:36                   ` Anil Veerabhadrappa
2007-09-08 11:59     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-08 14:49       ` Michael Chan
2007-09-08 17:57         ` Anil Veerabhadrappa
2007-09-07 22:36 ` Mike Christie
2007-09-08  7:41   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-08 11:32     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-08 12:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-09 15:05         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-25  8:39           ` Hannes Reinecke
2007-09-26  8:57             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-27  7:31               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-27  7:38                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-27  7:49                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-27  8:12                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-09-27  8:22                       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-27  8:46                         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-27  8:06                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-09-27  8:23                   ` Jeff Garzik

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