Re: status of mixed initiator and target QLogic FC cards

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Hi Jeremiah,

On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 12:48 -0600, jeremiah jahn wrote:
> I've been trying to track down the status/possibility or a way to run my
> qla24xx cards in a mixed mode, and have had no luck other than some year
> old posts indicating that it was too much of a PITA at the moment because
> of refactoring in the SCSI code. Is this still the case?  Not sure where
> else to ask. I've toyed with the idea of loading different copies of the
> module for each port with different parameters for qlini_mode but haven't
> dug too deep yet as I'm not it's even possible. I'm in a situation where I
> have moving things from one SAN to the next and yet need to keep my
>  original infrastructure available, just add a layer of abstraction on top
> of it, so that I can move things with minimal down time, and mix and match
> different storage pools.
> 
> 

Unfortunately, there are not been any further progress on mixed target /
initiator port support in mainline code at this point.

The issue(s) mentioned last year remain the same towards getting
something that works independent of LLD that is not a ugly hack, and
would be acceptable for mainline code.

--nab

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