All, This is a re-submission of the qla4xxx driver for Qlogic Corporation's iSCSI HBAs. Ravi Anand had previously submitted it under the subject "[RFC] [PATCH 0/7] requested for qla4xxx!!!". It also incorporates a subsequent patch posted by Doug Maxey under the subject "[PATCH] qla4xxx: remove deprecated #include" To recap Mike Christie has outlined the modifications done from the last submission at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115151443814051&w=2 Major Changes from the last release are as follows : o Removal of the unused cruft ie unused structs/macros/functions/file etc. o All the typedef usage has been removed. o Fixed coding style. o Hook's into iscsi-transport class. o Added support for session block/unblock. o Hook's into open-iscsi framework: -Support tgt discovery's from iscsiadm using send targets. - Exposes the persistent targets. o Lun scanning in user space. o Bug fixes and other trivial changes. The patchset has been broken down as follows : o Driver definitions o Initialization routines o OS integration o ISR routines o Mailbox routines o Support routines o Driver Version There are other stuff that need to be done : o Add support for sysfs attributes. o Userspace support for session creation/deletion for iscsi HBAs. o Add support for other discovery mode ie iSNS/SLP. All the patches along with the driver package have been uploaded at the following URL: ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/iSCSI/upstream/5.00.05b7-k/ Once again we really appreciate all the efforts of Mike Christie and Doug Maxey in this release. Looking forward to comment's/feedback. Regards, David Somayajulu Qlogic Corporation. - : 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
