On 5/3/22 07:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 11:54:11PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
The bfa driver hijacks the scsi command to signal the TMF status,
which will no longer work if the TMF handler will be converted.
So rework TMF handling to not use a scsi command but rather add
new TMF fields to the per-device structure.
This looks ok, but also a little sketchy. Given how unmaintained the
bfa driver is, maybe it is time just drop it?
Hmm. Opens up interesting possibilities.
While I still have a couple of them, I can't say that I'm actively using
them. (Quite the contrary, actually.)
And these are FCoE cards to boot, so one actually needs an FCoE switch
to get them to work. And those have gone out of fashion lately, so the
driver indeed is bordering on being obsolete.
But not quite, so I'm not sure.
We could ask Broadcom, though; nominally it's their driver after all...
Cheers,
Hannes
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