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

[Christoph Hellwig <hch _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:47:51AM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> Yes, given the structure and form of recent patches, that certainly
> does seem to be the case - which from QLogic's standpoint (now) 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

> > - The odd ioctl set to the qla device...I'd much rather see something
> > more standard that all FC drivers can use.
> > 
> 
> 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.

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