RE: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight option for Virtual FC Hosts.

From	KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	RE: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight option for Virtual FC Hosts.
Date	2017-01-27 16:50 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org]
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 7:12 AM
> To: Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com>
> Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com;
> martin.petersen@oracle.com; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight option
> for Virtual FC Hosts.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 03:28:57PM -0500, Cathy Avery wrote:
> > The patch provides a means to offer a lightweight option to the
> > current FC transport class. The new option is selected by a
> > driver when it indicates it wants the lightweight
> > transport via fc_function_template.
> 
> This need some really good documentation in the code and changelog
> what "lightweight" means.  It's a pretty horrible term, btw.

This was a concept that James proposed almost a year ago. I agree, we need to document this
better.

K. Y

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[PATCH 0/2] scsi: Create a lightweight FC Transport option for Virtual FC Hosts. Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com> - 2017-01-18 21:40 +0100
  [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight option for Virtual FC Hosts. Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com> - 2017-01-18 21:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight  option for Virtual FC Hosts. Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-01-19 18:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight option  for Virtual FC Hosts. Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com> - 2017-01-19 19:10 +0100
      RE: [PATCH 1/2] scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Provide a lightweight option  for Virtual FC Hosts. KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2017-01-27 16:50 +0100

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