Joe Eykholt wrote: > 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. >
I think if zfcp or something else on s390 does fcoe then you will not have a pci device. I have no idea of they plan on it, but if libhbalinux is going to work for all fc and fcoe drivers hen zfcp would have to be supported. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
