On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 02:43:23PM -0400, Bhat, Vinod wrote: > Hi, > > Here are few thoughts. On sourceforge there is a hbaapi project. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/hbaapi/ This is old project. Is it > possible to update that one or create a new project for hbaapi? first major problem is that it's licensed under an SNIA opensource license which it links to but doesn't exist anymore on their website. To be easily redistributable for Linux Distribution it should be licensed under the LGPL or a BSDish license. Also it contains lots of unessecary bloat like the dlopen-based plugin loading and windows support that wouldn't be nessecary for something that's simply a shim from the SNIA apis to the Linux native mechanisms. > If we have a open source project and supported by major HBA vendors, we > can build tools(open source) on this project. That will help bigger > community. Here is the SN Ping and Traceroute project proposal. This is > one example. > > http://www.t11.org/ftp/t11/admin/project_proposals/05-225v0.pdf > http://www.t11.org/ftp/t11/admin/project_proposals/05-177v1.txt These are good ideas for an fc-tools package or something like that. I'd rather write them directly to native APIs instead of going through the needless complication and obsfucations of the SNIA APIs. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
