Re: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks?

2005-04-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:29:11AM -0700, Mike Christie wrote: Are you going to try and push someone like qla4010 which has a similar interface to qla2xxx (it uses the msg box interface) to use the netlink interface? With a lot of the iscsi stuff masked away it seems a little difficult to

Re: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks?

2005-04-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:29:12AM -0700, Duane Grigsby wrote: No, that's not true; we are TOTALLY committed to getting all of our drivers in the upstream kernel. I have been working on the ISCSI driver cleanup to the level of our Fibre Channel driver as Andrew has done. I'm making it conform

RE: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks?

2005-04-20 Thread Dmitry Yusupov
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-iscsi development team; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks? On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:29:11AM -0700, Mike Christie wrote

RE: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks?

2005-04-20 Thread Duane Grigsby
So what API are you using for communicating with userspace right now? How much userspace support do you need? Is the current iscsi transport class okay with you and what about the netlink version? the current driver uses ioctls, but I will be looking at what we need to do to replace that with

RE: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks?

2005-04-20 Thread Duane Grigsby
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-iscsi development team; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks? On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:29:11AM