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From: "Love, Robert W" <robert.w.love@intel.com>
To: Chris Leech <leech@pobox.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@open-fcoe.org" <devel@open-fcoe.org>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Open-FCoE] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reorganize libfcoe control interfaces
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:46:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <504F7906.9040806@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504F76A1.50809@intel.com>

On Tue 11 Sep 2012 10:36:35 AM PDT, Love, Robert W wrote:
> On Tue 11 Sep 2012 10:06:29 AM PDT, Chris Leech wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> wrote:

<snip>

>> That being said, I'm glad this is being reworked.  Do you have any
>> other functionality in mind that this is laying the groundwork for?
>>
>
> I have one feature and a few ideas. I currently have a patch that adds
> a fabric selection feature. I add another RW attribute to the ctlr_X
> device. If the user writes fabric name to the file libfcoe uses it in
> it's FCF selection algorithm. Here's my commit message from that patch.
> I can share the patch if people would like to see it too. The current
> implementation also allows the user to force the login through a
> specific FCF.
>

My fcoe-utils.git change here also allows the user to drive this fabric 
selection using a new variable in the /etc/fcoe/cfg-ethX files that the 
'fcoe service' uses.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-11 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-10 22:59 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reorganize libfcoe control interfaces Robert Love
2012-09-10 22:59 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] libfcoe, fcoe: Allow user to set a ctlr's mode Robert Love
2012-09-10 23:12   ` Greg KH
2012-09-11  5:51   ` Bart Van Assche
2012-09-12 19:24     ` Love, Robert W
2012-09-10 22:59 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] libfcoe: Create new libfcoe control interfaces Robert Love
2012-09-14  7:06   ` Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi
2012-09-10 22:59 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] fcoe: Use new fcoe_sysfs control interface Robert Love
2012-09-10 22:59 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] bnx2fc: " Robert Love
2012-09-14  7:28   ` Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi
2012-09-10 22:59 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] libfcoe, fcoe: Remove libfcoe module parameters Robert Love
2012-09-11  0:05 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Reorganize libfcoe control interfaces Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi
2012-09-11  1:41   ` Love, Robert W
2012-09-11  5:46     ` Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi
2012-09-11 17:12   ` Chris Leech
2012-09-11 17:43     ` Love, Robert W
2012-09-11 17:06 ` Chris Leech
2012-09-11 17:36   ` Love, Robert W
2012-09-11 17:46     ` Love, Robert W [this message]
2012-09-11 18:31     ` Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi
2012-09-11 18:47       ` Love, Robert W
     [not found]     ` <504F76A1.50809-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-09-12 19:35       ` Love, Robert W

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