RE: [PATCH][resubmit] HP iLO driver

From: Altobelli, David
Date: Mon Jun 23 2008 - 23:41:23 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: FUJITA Tomonori [mailto:fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> This driver creates the own device file and user-space applications
> write a request data to the device file and read the response from it?

Yes, though I would include that the data for the read response is
supplied by the management processor.

> Would it be better to use the existing infrastructure (block/bsg.c) to
> do that? With bsg, you don't need to invent your fifo code to enqueue
> and dequeue requests.

I'm probably missing something, but I need that particular fifo code
to manage the device queues.
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