> Hello,

>

> Some of the FCoE capable adapters e.g. BCM57810 network interfaces

> has DCBX/LLDP client on-chip, and kernel documentation recommends

> to keep software based DCBX/LLDP clients (e.g. lldpad) disabled.

> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/bnx2fc.txt

>

> It was found that, if lldpad is disabled while using above interfaces,

> then fcoemon shows following errors every 10 seconds:

>

> fcoemon: error 111 Connection refused

> fcoemon: Failed to connect to lldpad

>

> Below patch checks each interface configuration in /etc/fcoe/cfg-ethX

> file to verify if there is at least 1 interface with DCB_REQUIRED flag

> set to yes and will try to initialize dcbd only if there is at least 1

> interface with DCB_REQUIRED="yes", else fcoemon will not try to

> initialize dcbd or connect to lldpad, thus eliminating above errors:

>

> Signed-off-by: Milan P. Gandhi <mgandhi at 
> redhat.com<http://lists.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/fcoe-devel>>



Looks good. Acked-by: Usha Ketineni <usha.k.ketineni at intel.com>



Sorry for the delay. I have lost email in my mailbox.

Vasu is out on vacation and will return by mid next week.



Thanks

Usha
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