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
next prev parent 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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