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From: Rakesh Ranjan <rakesh@chelsio.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:54:00 +0530
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To: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
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Mike Christie wrote:
> 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. 
> 
> Is the idea to have iscsid/uip send down this msg?
> 
> Was it not possible to hook in more like how bnx2i does dhcp?

yep, idea is to have iscsid send down ISCSI_UEVENT_REQ_IPCONF msg. bnx2i 
approach in our case for at least T3 is not feasible.

Regards
Rakesh Ranjan