>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Eykholt [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 11:01 AM
>To: Ma, Steve
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Open-FCoE] [PATCH] libhbalinux: PCI-based network HBA is a
>network device
>
>Ma, Steve wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Joe Eykholt [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:30 AM
>>> To: Ma, Steve
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [Open-FCoE] [PATCH] libhbalinux: PCI-based network HBA is a
>>> network device
>>>
>>> Steve Ma wrote:
>>>> A PCI-based network HBA shoud be handled as a network device.
>>>> It was incorrectly handled as non-network PCI device.
>>>
>>> Our fnic is not a network device.   Clients of libfc.ko do not have to
>>> be clients of fcoe.ko, and should not have to be network devices or even
>>> PCI devices.
>>>
>> Is your fnic a PCI device?
>
>Yes.  My point was that shouldn't be necessary for libfc clients.
>
>Some network devices aren't PCI, although I can't imagine running
>FCoE over an ISA, USB or firewire NIC.  Let's forget that issue.
>My main problem was that fnic doesn't have a netdev interface.
>
>Will your fix will work for non-net PCI devices?  It looks like it might,
>and I can try it sometime.
>
>       Cheers,
>       Joe
>
Yes, it will work for non-net pci devices. For non-pci, non-net devices, the 
current code does not support.

>>>> Signed-off-by: Steve Ma <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>  lport.c |    2 +-
>>>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/lport.c b/lport.c
>>>> index 80de20f..3cd0304 100644
>>>> --- a/lport.c
>>>> +++ b/lport.c
>>>> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ sysfs_scan(struct dirent *dp, void *arg)
>>>>            goto skip;
>>>>    buf[i] = '\0';
>>>>
>>>> -  if (strstr(buf, "devices/pci")) {
>>>> +  if (strstr(buf, "devices/pci") && !strstr(buf, "/net/")) {
>>>
>>>>            snprintf(hba_dir, sizeof(hba_dir), "%s/device/..", host_dir);
>>>>    } else {
>>>>            /* assume a net device */
>>>>
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