RE: [PATCH 1/14] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver (bfad)

From: Jing Huang
Date: Wed Sep 02 2009 - 16:02:16 EST


> These patches seem to have been posted a lot of times. Is anyone
> paying attention?
>
> > +BFA_TRC_FILE(LDRV, BFAD);
> > +
> > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(bfad_mutex);
> > +int bfad_scan_done;
> > +
> > +LIST_HEAD(bfad_list);
> > +
> > +static int bfad_inst;
> > +int supported_fc4s;
> > +
> > +char *host_name;
> > +char *os_name;
> > +char *os_patch;
> > +int num_rports;
> > +int num_ios;
> > +int num_tms;
> > +int num_fcxps;
> > +int num_ufbufs;
> > +int reqq_size;
> > +int rspq_size;
> > +int num_sgpgs;
> > +int rport_del_timeout = BFA_FCS_RPORT_DEF_DEL_TIMEOUT;
> > +int bfa_lun_queue_depth = BFAD_LUN_QUEUE_DEPTH;
> > +int bfa_io_max_sge = BFAD_IO_MAX_SGE;
> > +int log_level = BFA_LOG_WARNING;
> > +int ioc_auto_recover = BFA_TRUE;
> > +int ipfc_enable = BFA_FALSE;
> > +int ipfc_mtu = -1;
> > +int linkup_delay = -1;
>
> eek. These are all kernel-wide global symbols and many of them are
> very inappropriately named. They should either be made static or given
> a subsystem-specific prefix such as "bfad_".
>

Thanks Andrew. I will fix this and resubmit.

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