[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver

Ramachandra K ramachandra.kuchimanchi at qlogic.com
Tue Jun 3 05:24:19 PDT 2008


Roland,

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
>  > And yes, multiple values per sysfs file are not allowed, sorry, please
>  > change this.  If you need to configure your device through an interface
>  > like this, consider using configfs instead, that is what it is there
>  > for.
>
> Makes sense... I know that the SRP initiator uses the method of multiple
> 'token=<value>' entries passed into sysfs, but the excuse is that SRP
> was merged before configfs.

OK. We will investigate moving the qlgc_vnic driver to configfs. What is the
deadline by which we need to be ready for a merge to 2.6.27 ?

Regards,
Ram



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