From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ramachandra K" Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:54:19 +0530 Message-ID: <71d336490806030524r6aa6fed6rdb166efb11385969@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080529095126.9943.84692.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20080529095754.9943.27936.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20080529103003.010c4a08@extreme> <20080529174805.GA10903@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Greg KH" , amar.mudrankit@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org, "Stephen Hemminger" , poornima.kamath@qlogic.com To: "Roland Dreier" Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.30]:12844 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752107AbYFCMYU (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:24:20 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so783671ywe.1 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:24:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Roland, On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Roland Dreier wrote: > > And yes, multiple values per sysfs file are not allowed, sorry, please > > change this. If you need to configure your device through an interface > > like this, consider using configfs instead, that is what it is there > > for. > > Makes sense... I know that the SRP initiator uses the method of multiple > 'token=' entries passed into sysfs, but the excuse is that SRP > was merged before configfs. OK. We will investigate moving the qlgc_vnic driver to configfs. What is the deadline by which we need to be ready for a merge to 2.6.27 ? Regards, Ram