Re: [(re)Announce] Emulex LightPulse Device Driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:21:24PM -0700, David.Egolf@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> The first bullet on your post is of interest to us.  We currently support 
> customers with Emulex fc cards using a 2.4 kernel on IA64.  Our software 
> employs the hba api supplied from Emulex in order determine the 
> configuration of the SAN(s) connected to the cards.
> 
> Your comment is on the terse side.  Is your comment directed at this 
> particular implementation of the hba api code, the current packaging 
> situation, or do you have a general disregard for the hba api strategy? In 
> short, do you believe that the hba api can and/or should be supported for 
> the Emulex LightPulse Device Driver? 

The SNIA HBA API is horrible interface, and we won't support it as a mean
to interact with the kernel.  We're looking into a common API for quering
attributes of FC HBAs using sysfs and the fc transport class.

If someone wants to build a HBA API library ontop of that - we'll not my
business.

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