[openib-general] FW: [PATCH fixed] [RFC] IB/srp: enable multiple connections to the same target

[Lakshmanan, Madhu]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Thanks, queued for 2.6.19

I tested the patches, which are included in OFED 1.1 RC7, against
Silverstorm SRP targets. The patch breaks backward compatibility for
fabrics that use Silverstorm targets, due to the following:

It defaults the new parameter "initiator_ext" to 0. Silverstorm SRP
targets, when configured for working with OFED stacks, are usually set
to expect an initiator extension of 1, to overcome the earlier
limitation of OFED stacks setting initiator extension to the port
number. This implies that a user must, without exception, add
"initiator_ext=<n>" to the add target echo string.

It'd be useful if either or both of the following could be done:

1. Release note the above requirement of adding the "initiator_ext=<n>"
string to the add target echo string, for all Silverstorm targets.
2. Maintain the earlier default of the initiator extension being equal
to the port number. 

I have prepared a patch that does step 2 above, which I'll send in a
separate e-mail based on the feedback to the above suggestions.

Madhu