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

[Andrew Vasquez]

On Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:54 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:47:51AM -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> > 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...
 
> > 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


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