Re: [PATCH] FC Transport support for vports based on NPIV

2007-05-22 Thread Christof Schmitt
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:45:13AM -0400, James Smart wrote: True - so this means that who-ever is setting the subchannel device permanent_port_name value needs to take into account this conversation, when T11.3 actually makes a choice on what it should be. I will keep this in mind. Probably

Re: [PATCH] FC Transport support for vports based on NPIV

2007-05-21 Thread Christof Schmitt
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:56:38AM -0400, James Smart wrote: All true. But, there is the notion that there is a driver that thinks it's controlling the adapter, but it's actually talking to a virtual thing, that traps the driver's FLOGI's and turns it into FDISCs... With zfcp, the hardware

Re: [PATCH] FC Transport support for vports based on NPIV

2007-05-14 Thread Christof Schmitt
James, i try to understand what the introduction of the vports means for zfcp, since this driver also supports NPIV. The documentation for the fc transport class describes a driver that would fully control the adapter and the creation of virtual address. Since you mentioned Xen, i assume that

Re: [PATCH] FC Transport support for vports based on NPIV

2007-05-14 Thread James Smart
reposting w/ the title James Smart wrote: Christof Schmitt wrote: James, i try to understand what the introduction of the vports means for zfcp, since this driver also supports NPIV. The documentation for the fc transport class describes a driver that would fully control the adapter and