From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Love, Robert W" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reorganize libfcoe control interfaces Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:41:47 +0000 Message-ID: <504E96DA.1080406@intel.com> References: <20120910225908.13140.97277.stgit@fritz> <504E8040.70403@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@open-fcoe.org" To: Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi Return-path: In-Reply-To: <504E8040.70403@broadcom.com> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: <03EE67DDD09F2E4991AD3FCC09C9F1C0@intel.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org T24gTW9uIDEwIFNlcCAyMDEyIDA1OjA1OjIwIFBNIFBEVCwgQmhhbnUgUHJha2FzaCBHb2xsYXB1 ZGkgd3JvdGU6DQo+IE9uIDkvMTAvMjAxMiAzOjU5IFBNLCBSb2JlcnQgTG92ZSB3cm90ZToNCj4+ IFRoZSBmb2xsb3dpbmcgc2VyaWVzIGltcGxlbWVudHMgYSBtb3ZlIGZyb20gdXNpbmcgbW9kdWxl 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