RE: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-30 Thread Duane Grigsby
-Original Message- From: Matthew Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:47 AM To: Seokmann Ju Cc: Abhishek Kane; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Linux Driver; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2 > > some sought of documentation fo

Re: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-30 Thread Seokmann Ju
Matthew Jacob wrote: >>> some sought of documentation for this, please let me know. >> NPIV is a feature to provide multiple path available on one physical port >> and it has implemented based on the multiport ID (MID) capability on the >> switch. >> So, you have to have the switch with MID capab

Re: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-30 Thread Matthew Jacob
> > some sought of documentation for this, please let me know. > NPIV is a feature to provide multiple path available on one physical port and > it has implemented based on the multiport ID (MID) capability on the switch. > So, you have to have the switch with MID capable on the configuration to

Re: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-30 Thread Seokmann Ju
Abhishek Kane wrote: > Hi, > > With the NPIV support been merged into 2.6.23-rc2, i was interested in > trying it out on my setup. But i understand from the code that this support > (NPIV) is only for 24xx cards. > I need to undertand what are the problems in making it available for 23xx > cards.