From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Rakesh Ranjan <rakesh@chelsio.com>
Cc: 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: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:48:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEF6FC4.6060208@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEA7870.4010804@chelsio.com>
Rakesh Ranjan wrote:
> 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.
>
I think adding DHCP in the kernel is getting a little crazy :) If we go
down this path, I agree with the other person that stated it should at
least be generic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-02 23:48 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
[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 [this message]
2009-11-04 18:24 ` Rakesh Ranjan
2009-11-04 19:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
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