From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rakesh Ranjan Subject: Re: [RFC-PATCH] dhcp provisioning support in cxgb3i Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:54:07 +0530 Message-ID: <4AF1C6C7.80103@chelsio.com> References: <4AE995C4.4080909@chelsio.com> <4AEA04A4.1060800@cs.wisc.edu> <4AEA7870.4010804@chelsio.com> <4AEF6FC4.6060208@cs.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, James Bottomley , Karen Xie , "open-iscsi@googlegroups.com" , LKML , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rakesh Ranjan To: Mike Christie Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AEF6FC4.6060208@cs.wisc.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Mike Christie wrote: > 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. Hi Mike, What do you mean be generic ? Do you want to have a generic interface for DHCP handler that could be part of libiscsi and could be used by other LLD's. Regards Rakesh Ranjan