On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:28 -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 10:53 -0700, Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi wrote:
> > Incorporated Joe's review comments.
> > 
> > Currently lport and rport event callbacks are part of rport_ops
> > and are not exported to the LLDDs. This patch enables LLDDs to
> > provide a driver specific callback routine which can be called
> > when the remote port is ready.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bhanu Gollapudi <[email protected]>
> > ---
> 
> Hi Bhanu,
> 
>    I think this approach is fine assuming the user is a CNA and not a
> netdev based Ethernet driver. If it's the prior then this change should
> be fine as is, but should not be merged until there is a mainline user
> for this functionality. If it's the latter then this code would be used
> for an OOB communication mechanism between libfc and the driver. I'd
> like to see some buy off from the netdev developers if that's the case
> and I'd probably like to explore a more robust OOB communication
> interface.
> 
>    Is there a mainline driver that will use these hooks? Is it a CNA /
> multi-function device (storage) driver or an Ethernet driver?
> 
> //Rob

Thanks for reviewing this Robert. The user is going to be a CNA. And,
as you pointed out, there is no mainline user for this functionality
yet. Will submit this change again when our driver is ready.

-Bhanu
> 
> 
> 



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