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SubjectRe: apropos FibreChannel & Linux

Uh, dave, I'm assuming that this comment is directed at davide- I thought
I was *in* agreement with what you say......:-)


On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, David Miller wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:44:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
>
> > I know of "linux/drivers/fc4/*" but it seems too customized for the SUN
> > card.
>
> It's a start, and FCP services should probably grow from there.
>
> I think this is an unfair analysis of the fc4 layer, if there are
> truly problems with making our fc4 code work to write non-Sun fibre
> channel hardware drivers, please let us know specifics and we'll be
> more than happy to fix them up. The intention was that this layer
> would make it possible to write fibre channel drivers on any machine.
>
> All I hear right now is something like "I see a lot of sparc ifdefs in
> the code, it must not be feasible to use it on other machines".
>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
>


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