RE: [ANNOUNCE] QLogic qla2xxx driver update available (v8.00.00b7).

On Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:54 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:47:51AM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:

quoted

seems to be the proper path.  Just for clarification, given the
structure of the driver now (failover completely separated),
inclusion of the qla2xxx driver would exclude the following
failover files: 

	qla_fo.c qla_foln.c qla_cfg.c qla_cfgln.c

correct?

 + qla_inioct.c qla_xioct.c

and the associated headers for both the ioctl and failover
code, of course

Yes, no IOCTLs...
 

quoted

Are you proposing to standardize a transport by which a user-space
application communicates with a driver (beyond IOCTLs), or, are you
suggesting there be some commonality in functional interfaces (i.e.
SNIA) for all FC drivers?

the SNIA HBA-API spec is completely broken.  But we should
try to support
a sanitized subset of the spec using the transport class work that's
currently discussed on linux-scsi.

I'll excuse myself from the API debate and take a look at the transport
class infrastructure being proposed.

--
Andrew Vasquez