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author | Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> | 2012-05-23 02:06:10 (GMT) |
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committer | James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> | 2012-05-23 08:36:27 (GMT) |
commit | 619fe4bed415e5d8a4749937f42b6a8a9031d4aa (patch) | |
tree | 8b52f6fd4b2ba58ef898f628aba8ab49111e1aa8 /Documentation/hwmon | |
parent | b7e94a1686c5daef4f649f7f4f839cc294f07710 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-619fe4bed415e5d8a4749937f42b6a8a9031d4aa.tar.xz |
[SCSI] fcoe: Allocate fcoe_ctlr with fcoe_interface, not as a member
Currently the fcoe_ctlr associated with an interface is allocated
as a member of struct fcoe_interface. This causes problems when
attempting to use the new fcoe_sysfs APIs which allow us to allocate
the fcoe_interface as private data to the fcoe_ctlr_device instance.
The problem is that libfcoe wants to be able use pointer math to find a
fcoe_ctlr's fcoe_ctlr_device as well as finding a fcoe_ctlr_device's
assocated fcoe_ctlr. To do this we need to allocate the
fcoe_ctlr_device, with private data for the LLD. The private data
contains the fcoe_ctlr and its private data is the fcoe_interface.
This patch only allocates the fcoe_interface with the fcoe_ctlr, the
fcoe_ctlr_device will be added in a later patch, which will complete
the below diagram-
+------------------+
| fcoe_ctlr_device |
+------------------+
| fcoe_ctlr |
+------------------+
| fcoe_interface |
+------------------+
This prep work will allow us to go from a fcoe_ctlr_device instance
to its fcoe_ctlr as well as from a fcoe_ctlr to its fcoe_ctlr_device
once the fcoe_sysfs API is in use (later patches in this series).
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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