Re: [PATCH 01/10] staging: fnic2 add initialization

[Martin K. Petersen]

Greg,

>> If you think that this driver doesn't belong in the drivers/staging
>> community, we are happy to explore getting the driver fully ready on
>> our side and getting it into the "proper" place.
>
> I'll take anything in staging as long as it has the correct license and
> builds, that's not an issue :)  But I do want to get agreement from the
> SCSI maintainers that this is ok to have in this part of the kernel as
> sometimes it can cause merge issues if there are core api changes.

This is the first I hear of fnic2.

My initial questions are: Why is a new driver necessary? Why can't the
existing fnic driver be extended? And if it can't, what can be shared
between the two drivers?

A good place to have that discussion would be on linux-scsi...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering