Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-12 Thread Rakesh Ranjan
Mike Christie wrote: > On 06/12/2009 07:10 AM, Rakesh Ranjan wrote: >> Mike Christie wrote: >>> On 06/09/2009 12:50 PM, Benjamin Li wrote: Hi Rakesh, Your idea of eliminating the 'brcm_iscsiuio' daemon and integrating that code as a shared library into iscsid is a great i

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Christie
On 06/12/2009 07:10 AM, Rakesh Ranjan wrote: > Mike Christie wrote: >> On 06/09/2009 12:50 PM, Benjamin Li wrote: >>> Hi Rakesh, >>> >>> Your idea of eliminating the 'brcm_iscsiuio' daemon and integrating that >>> code as a shared library into iscsid is a great idea. Just having the >>> iscsid da

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-12 Thread Rakesh Ranjan
Mike Christie wrote: > On 06/09/2009 12:50 PM, Benjamin Li wrote: >> Hi Rakesh, >> >> Your idea of eliminating the 'brcm_iscsiuio' daemon and integrating that >> code as a shared library into iscsid is a great idea. Just having the >> iscsid daemon to configure and run would make it easier for th

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Christie
On 06/09/2009 12:50 PM, Benjamin Li wrote: > Hi Rakesh, > > Your idea of eliminating the 'brcm_iscsiuio' daemon and integrating that > code as a shared library into iscsid is a great idea. Just having the > iscsid daemon to configure and run would make it easier for the end > user. But pushing f

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-09 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Rakesh, Your idea of eliminating the 'brcm_iscsiuio' daemon and integrating that code as a shared library into iscsid is a great idea. Just having the iscsid daemon to configure and run would make it easier for the end user. But pushing for this would be an long term goal for me because curr

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-09 Thread Rakesh Ranjan
Benjamin Li wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 03:51 -0700, Rakesh Ranjan wrote: >>> > Hi Rakesh, > > Converting the dependency between uIP and UIO shouldn't be a problem. > We can make them more generic. I apologize if it is a tad bit of a > mess. The coupling of uIP and UIO was from early versio

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-04 Thread Benjamin Li
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 03:51 -0700, Rakesh Ranjan wrote: > Benjamin Li wrote: > > > > Note: There is still some legacy code where I need a make a cleaner > > division between the stack and hardware implementation. This is because > > there is still some areas in the uIP stack where it makes an as

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-04 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi Mike, I will discuss how uio will be distributed with Michael tomorrow, and we will get back with you. I agree with your line of thinking in creating a unified front on iscsi configuration. But, there is still work to be done to eliminate the uio configuration file completely. I haven't got

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-03 Thread Mike Christie
Benjamin Li wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I have attached the uio source here in this email. This should be the > same as the tarfile I have attached to the RHEL 442418 bugzilla report > on 2009-05-21 23:05 EDT. Please let me know if the tarfiles aren't the > same. The website to host the uIP is still

Re: [PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-06-01 Thread Mike Christie
Benjamin Li wrote: > Hi All, > > This patch is used in conjunction with the bnx2i patch Michael Chan sent > eariler to the scsi mailing lists. This is part of the userspace > portion of the Broadcom iSCSI offload solution. This patch is needed > because the uIP stack will use some of the config

[PATCH] iscsid to run in conjunction with the Broadcom uIP stack

2009-05-26 Thread Benjamin Li
Hi All, This patch is used in conjunction with the bnx2i patch Michael Chan sent eariler to the scsi mailing lists. This is part of the userspace portion of the Broadcom iSCSI offload solution. This patch is needed because the uIP stack will use some of the configuration data from the iface fil