> 
> On 11/14/2012 09:41 AM, Yi Zou wrote:
> > //note: apologize if got this multiple times, mailing list was acting weird
> > //recently.
> >
> > This series of patches try to merge some code across fcoe and bnx2fc to move
> > the common code into libfcoe. Things like update link speed based on ethtool
> > cmd and get link error status block are almost exactly the same. There may 
> > be
> > more that we can consolidate but these two are obvious.
> >
> > The very first patch is probably the only important one as the rest is more
> > or less cleanups around it. I basically added a callback for the individual
> > fcoe transport driver to allow libfcoe to get the corresponding netdev w/o
> > worrying about individual per interface private structure.
> >
> > Let me know if this looks ok, particularly Rob and Bhanu.
> > Patches are directly applicable on current open-fcoe.org tree. I did minor
> > testing on fcoe (got FCID) and compile-tested bnx2fc (load/unload as well).
> > Might have to respin later if runs into conflict.
> 
> Yi,
> 
> The changes look good to me. However, I do see a handful of function
> calls to fcoe_netdev() within 'fcoe' driver. Although it works, it is
> just unnecessary as you can directly call the function being in the same
> module. for eg., fcoe_ddp_done() calls fcoe_netdev() to obtain netdev.
> You can directly use fcoe_get_netdev(). Similarly in
> fcoe_shost_config(), fcoe_ddp_setup(), fcoe_ddp_target, fcoe_link_ok,
> fcoe_hostlist_add.
> 
> To minimize the code changes, you can probably change fcoe_get_netdev to
> fcoe_netdev and vice versa. IOW, assign port->get_netdev = fcoe_netdev.
> Only fcoe_transport would use new function fcoe_get_netdev() to obtain
> the netdev from lport.

Yeah, you are right, that's seems a lot better, let me respin this.

Thanks,
yi


> 
> bnx2fc driver changes look good to me. I'll test it and get back to you.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bhanu
> 
> 
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Yi Zou (8):
> >        libfcoe: add some missiong function comments
> >        bnx2fc: use fcoe_get_lesb/fcoe_ctlr_get_lesb() directly from libfcoe
> >        bnx2fc: use fcoe_link_speed_update() from the exported symbol in 
> > libfcoe
> >        bnx2fc: add support to get_netdev for bnx2f_interface
> >        libfcoe/fcoe: consolidate the fcoe_ctlr_get_lesb/fcoe_get_lesb
> >        libfcoe/fcoe: move fcoe_link_speed_update() to libfcoe and export it
> >        fcoe: add support to the get_netdev() for fcoe_interface
> >        fcoe: prep work to start consolidate the usage of fcoe_netdev
> >
> >
> >   drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c  |   87 
> > ++++-------------------------------
> >   drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c           |   86 
> > ++++-------------------------------
> >   drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.h           |   10 ----
> >   drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_transport.c |   89
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   include/scsi/libfcoe.h             |   16 ++++++
> >   5 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> 

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