Re: [PATCH] scsi: qedi: select UIO

[Rangankar, Manish]

On 11/01/17 9:40 AM, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>>>>>> "Ewan" == Ewan D Milne <emilne@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>Ewan> Randy posted a similar patch back in December but I don't think
>Ewan> there was ever a reply to Christoph's question about why qedi
>Ewan> depends on uio.
>
>I did queue up Randy's patch to shut up the build warnings. But we're
>still looking for a long term fix or an explanation as to why UIO is
>needed in the first place.

Similar to bnx2i driver, qedi driver also has a dependency over iscsiuio
to provide ARP and DHCP functionality for iscsi offload, and the
communication to the
driver is done via uio interface.

https://github.com/open-iscsi/open-iscsi/blob/master/iscsiuio/README


Thanks,
Manish