On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 16:05 +0300, Erez Zilber wrote: > > General comment - in the future, I suggest that you send OFED related > e-mails also to the EWG list and to me (I maintain iSER in OFED & > kernel.org).
I will probably need to subscribe first. :-( > OFED 1.3 provides open-iscsi 2.0-865.15 (userspace & kernel). This > version is newer than the version that is shipped with RHEL5. It also > has full iSER support. Yeah, I had a feeling that what I really wanted was to use the ofa_kernel one. > Yeah, it is an open-iscsi transport, so you must have open-iscsi in > order to use this driver. With OFED 1.3, qla4xxx is not included. We > only included the TCP & iSER transports. Indeed. > Of course. You can't have open-iscsi modules twice. Exactly, which is why I want to disable them in the kernel if I can. > OFED is shipped with its own version of open-iscsi because I don't want > to support multiple versions of open-iscsi (each distro has its own > version of open-iscsi). That's certainly fair enough. > Also, having a newer version of open-iscsi > (which we have in OFED) fixes many bugs and adds new features (which is > good). Indeed. All the more reason to use the OFED supplied one. However... > Is qla4xxx the only problem that you have with open-iscsi in OFED? Looking through the kernel Kconfig files, it does appear that SCSI_QLA_ISCSI is the only driver needing SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS that isn't in the OFED 1.3 release. b.
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