Lucy Liu wrote:
> In current fcoe utils, both fcoemon and fcoeadm could write to /sys/class/..
> files by calling "create"/"destroy"/"reset" commands. Fcoemon has no way to
> manage those files after startup. Fcoeadm bypasses fcoemon and accesses
> those files.
>
> So this patch create socket interface between fcoemon and fcoeadm. Fcoemon as
> server provided an IPC interface for client applications(fcoeadm) to set
> create/reset/destroy device interface. fcoeadm doesn't write to those files
> anymore, instead, it connects to the client interface of
> fcoemon to perform those operations.
>
> The detail changes are as following:
> a. Create new files fcoe_clif.h/c as a library used by fcoemon and
> fcoeadm. Clif stands for client interface. Change Makefile.am for new
> files
> fcoe_clif.h/c
> b. In fcoemon.c/h, create socket interface and resiger receive function using
> sa_loop_select. The code has merged with fcoemon redesign. In fcoe_port
> struct, add a new member as socket reply information. Fcoemon will save the
> socket reply info and wait to reply to fcoeadm at the end of select loop
> after the "action".
> c. In fcoeadm.c/h, remove the code of access sysfs files, create socket to
> connect to fcoemon, send request, parse and print out the response;
> d. in fcoeplumb, remove "create", "delete" and "reset" commands.
>
> ---
>
> Lucy Liu (4):
> Update fcoeplumb script
> Add socket client interface in fcoeadm
> Add socket server interface in fcoemon
> Create library files for fcoesocket interfaces
>
>
> Makefile.am | 4 -
> fcoe_clif.c | 128 +++++++++++++++++
> fcoe_clif.h | 53 +++++++
> fcoeadm.c | 319 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> fcoeadm.h | 16 ++
> fcoemon.c | 437
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> fcoemon.h | 20 +++
> fcoeplumb.in | 89 +-----------
> 8 files changed, 821 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 fcoe_clif.c
> create mode 100644 fcoe_clif.h
Is it intended that the reset and info functions of fcoeadm will
still work for the fnic driver and other libfc LLDs, which use
libhbalinux but don't need DCBX?
The create/delete functions don't apply, of course.
Thanks,
Joe
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