Re: [PATCH 1/2] RFC: iscsi ibft: separate ibft parsing from sysfs interface

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Mon Apr 12 2010 - 22:22:23 EST


On Monday 12 April 2010 14:06:17 michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Not all iscsi drivers support ibft. For drivers like be2iscsi
> that do not but are bootable through a vendor firmware specific
> format/process this patch moves the sysfs interface from the ibft code
> to a lib module. This then allows userspace tools to search for iscsi boot
> info in a common place and in a common format.
>
> ibft iscsi boot info is exported in the same place as it was
> before: /sys/firmware/ibft.
>
> vendor/fw boot info gets export in /sys/firmware/iscsi_bootX, where X is
> the scsi host number of the HBA. Underneath these parent dirs, the
> target, ethernet, and initiator dirs are the same as they were before.
>
> This patch was made over the ibft-2.6 tree's ibft-1.03 branch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=
>refs/heads/ibft-1.03
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Looks good to my eyes.

Let me run it tomorrow through my regression bucket before I stick on the git
tree.
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