On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:09:15PM -0700, Robert Love wrote: > This patch series adds a sysfs layer to libfcoe. It adds > a sysfs instance for FIP controllers (a SW entity) and > discovered Fibre Channel Forwarders (FCFs), which are > simply FCoE switches. > > The new sysfs code is used by any driver that currently > uses libfcoe, namely fcoe.ko and bnx2fc_fcoe.ko. Any other > FCoE capable device that wishes to use the high-level APIs > defined in fcoe_syfs.h may, without having to use the > the protocol processing portions of libfcoe. > > The code borrows heavily from the FC Transport, but is > less complicated because it does not need to interact > with the SCSI layer directly. > > I think one thing to consider with this series is that > drivers, such as traditional HBAs, which wish to use > this infrastructure will now need to depend on libfcoe.ko. > It was either this or create a superfluous kernel module; > I think libfcoe is an appropriate place for this code. > > This series was created against scsi-misc + 9 patches > mailed by me to linux-scsi on 03/09/12. (Note that 10 > patches were mailed, but that patch 01/10 will be dropped) > > I'm not sure if there's somewhere I should cross-post > this for general sysfs review. I don't think I'm doing > anything odd; I added Greg K-H to the CC list to try and > get some sysfs eyes on this code. As you are adding new sysfs files, please always add the proper Documentation/ABI/ files as well. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
