Hi James,
This patch set adds support for NVME over Fabrics FC transport to lpfc The internals of the driver are reworked to support being either: a SCSI initiator; a NVME intiator; both a SCSI initiator and a NVME initiator; or a NVME target. The driver effectively has parallel NVME and SCSI stacks that utilize their own set of resources. They intersect only at the hardware level, mainly in queue create layers and interrupt handling. A few new files are added to support the interfaces of the FC transport LLDD api for NVME fabrics. The patches were cut against 1/30 scsi.git tree, misc branch. ** THEY ARE INTENDED FOR THE SCSI.GIT TREE, MISC BRANCH ** The lpfc version in the linux-block.git tree is rather old. I have a recipe for how to get it to a version that syncs with the scsi.git/misc tree so that these patches can apply there as well. Contact me if you would like it.
This set does not seem to apply cleanly on nvme-4.11 tree, looks like patch 6 is failing. Also, can you send your patchset threaded? It usually does so when generating the patches with git format-patch, not sure how this is not the case with your set... It would make my life a bit easier. Thanks.
