** These are Yi's patches with checkpatch corrections to enable submission of my follow-on patches. ** "As to follow the thread about the RFC patch initially from Bhanu: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=129227626410508&w=2 Here is a set of patches that I cut out for the purpose of kind of proof of concept thing to seek comments from the community about it this makes or not. I understand this is the end of the year and I was hoping to get this out earlier. The idea was what I described in the above linked thread, we can add a thin layer of fcoe transport to libfcoe and make existing fcoe.ko as the default fcoe transport provider, so all vendor specific fcoe hba and plug in as their own fcoe hba driver, at the same time, we can keep the common user space interface in libfcoe module parameters for all related sysfs entry points to continue use the Open-FCoE's fcoe-utils utility tools with full support to DCB as well. These patches are touch tested, I did some basic i/o using the converted fcoe.ko, I was going to take Bhanu's last patch to show case the use of this but did not get time to do it, but you get the idea. The match() function of the fcoe_transport() will be vendor specific as it's the vendor driver's job to check if it wants to support FCoE on the given netdev interface, which may be by getting the pci device vendor and id info. from the associated pci dev of that netdev object. At this point, they are just RFCs, I expect there will be more changes needed if we are moving forward towards this direction, e.g., I think many codes in fcoe.c may also be used by any transport provider so can be moved into libfcoe module as well, and some of the structures in "fcoe.h" may have to moved into the include/scsi/libfcoe.h in case other vendor drivers want to make use of them." Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi (8): libfcoe: move logging macros into the local libfcoe.h header file libfcoe: add fcoe_transport structure defines to include/scsi/libfcoe.h libfcoe: add implementation to support fcoe transport libfcoe: rename libfcoe.c to libfcoe_fip.c for the coming libfcoe_transport.c libfcoe: remove libfcoe.c, use the same libfcoe_fip.c instead libfcoe: include libfcoe_transport.c into kernel libfcoe module fcoe: prepare fcoe for using fcoe transport fcoe: convert fcoe.ko to become an fcoe transport provider driver drivers/scsi/fcoe/Makefile | 2 + drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c | 193 +-- drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.c | 22 +- drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.h | 31 + drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe_fip.c | 2682 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe_transport.c | 421 ++++++ include/scsi/libfcoe.h | 37 + 7 files changed, 3246 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.h create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe_fip.c create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe_transport.c -- 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
