[PATCH 5/5] nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC host and target transport

James Smart james.smart at broadcom.com
Mon Aug 22 10:29:38 PDT 2016



On 8/11/2016 2:23 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 05:23:59PM -0700, James Smart wrote:
>> Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC host and target transport within
>> nvme-fabrics
>>
>> To aid in the development and testing of the lower-level api of the FC
>> transport, this loopback driver has been created to act as if it were a
>> FC hba driver supporting both the host interfaces as well as the target
>> interfaces with the nvme FC transport.
> A proper FC loop device should support SCSI and NVMe.  Any chance to
> morph it into one that does both?

Nope. Not really appropriate for this module, whose goals were to test 
the fc-nvme interfaces. SCSI is a whole different beast.

-- james




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