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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:48:20 -0600
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Cc: davem@davemloft.net, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
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To: Rakesh Ranjan <rakesh@chelsio.com>
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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.