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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco.com>
Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, gospo@redhat.com, abjoglek@cisco.com,
	jeykholt@cisco.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Consolidate shared code between enic and fnic drivers.
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:58:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ada8wjipt0d.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090618050502.30610.69142.stgit@palito_client100.nuovasystems.com> (Scott Feldman's message of "Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:05:04 -0700")


 > The Cisco enic 10G Ethernet driver and the fnic FCoE HBA driver share
 > much of the same hardware-access code because enic and fnic devices are
 > really two functions on a converged-I/O PCIe device.  This patch
 > consolidates the shared code into one shared module, thus eliminating
 > the code duplication.  No functional changes are made by the patch.

Big ACK on this from me -- I never liked duplicating all this code
between the two drivers.

 - R.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-18  5:05 [PATCH] Consolidate shared code between enic and fnic drivers Scott Feldman
2009-06-18  9:29 ` Hannes Reinecke
2009-06-18 17:03   ` Mike Christie
2009-06-18 17:19     ` Scott Feldman
2009-06-18 17:45       ` Mike Christie
2009-06-23 21:03         ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-23 23:53           ` Joe Eykholt
2009-06-25 16:38             ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-23 21:02   ` Roland Dreier
2009-06-18 14:03 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-06-23 20:58 ` Roland Dreier [this message]

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