Hi, Mike, Thanks for the reply. True, there is no dependency on the network driver part. I will send out the new patch with the entire driver soon. Thanks, Karen -----Original Message----- From: Mike Christie [mailto:michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 7:57 AM To: Karen Xie Cc: David Miller; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; open-iscsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 2.6.29] cxgb3i -- driver fixes & updates Karen Xie wrote: > Hi, Dave & Mike, > > I guess I need some clarification on how this driver code could be merged. > I think you want to send a patch with the entire driver like you were before. Do not send against my branch so James and others do not have to dig around in there. > The cxgb3i driver addition consists of 2 parts: > > 1. the new cxgb3i driver. It resides under drivers/scsi, this part has the dependency on the open-iscsi core changes I referred in the previous email. I was under the impression this goes into scsi-misc? > > 2. some iscsi related changes in cxgb3 driver (driver/net). This part does not have any dependency. Dave, I suppose this part goes into net-next? If so, this does not need Mike's patch at all. > There is no dependency with network stuff right (just the cxgb3 driver which is upstream already)? If so I think it would be easier to just send the driver through James. > Thanks a lot. > Karen > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sat 12/6/2008 11:53 PM > To: Karen Xie > Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; open-iscsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx; James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 2.6.29] cxgb3i -- driver fixes & updates > > From: Karen Xie <kxie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:09:36 -0800 > >> It is based on the cxgb3i branch of Mike's linux-2.6-iscsi tree. It needs the >> patch Mike sent several days ago on preparing the iscsi core libary for pdu >> offload (http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=122819956917473). > > If this dependency exists I probably can't pull this into the > net-next-2.6 then, just FYI but you probably already understand > this :-) > -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
