RE: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight option for Virtual FC Hosts.

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 7:12 AM
> To: Cathy Avery <cavery@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang Zhang
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight option
> for Virtual FC Hosts.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 03:28:57PM -0500, Cathy Avery wrote:
> > The patch provides a means to offer a lightweight option to the
> > current FC transport class. The new option is selected by a
> > driver when it indicates it wants the lightweight
> > transport via fc_function_template.
> 
> This need some really good documentation in the code and changelog
> what "lightweight" means.  It's a pretty horrible term, btw.

This was a concept that James proposed almost a year ago. I agree, we need to document this
better.

K. Y