Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] qla2xxx: disable scsi_transport_fc registration in target mode

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On 07/14/2015 10:00 PM, Himanshu Madhani wrote:
> From: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There are multiple reasons for disabling this:
> 
> 1. It provides no functional benefit. We pretty much only get a few more
> sysfs entries for each port, but all that information is already
> available from /sys/kernel/debug/target/qla-session-X
> 
> 2. It already only works in private-loop mode. By disabling we'll be
> getting more uniform behavior with fabric mode.
> 
> 3. It creates complications for the new PLOGI handling mechanism:
> scsi_transport_fc port deletion timer could race with new session
> from initiator and cause logout after successful login.
> 
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Potashnik <alexei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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