[PATCH] update f12 fcoe related kernel code

[Mike Christie]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:05:53PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > Sorry for the large patch. I was not sure how I should do this.
>  > 
>  > I am trying to update the fcoe related (fcoe, libfc, ixgbe, fnic and 
>  > dcb) kernel code that is going into fedora 12. The attached patch 
>  > updates the fedora 12 kernel to what is in the SCSI maintainer and 
>  > network maintainer's trees for 2.6.32-rc1. For scsi this is the 
>  > scsi-misc tree 
>  > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git;a=summary 
>  >   and for networking this is the net-next tree 
>  > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=summary.
>  
> This scares me.  We're shipping 2.6.31 because we can't justify the risk
> of shipping rc code in a final release. With huge amounts of change
> like this, we're essentially doing the same thing.

There is actually going to be more patches :( There are maybe 50+ other 
patches floating around the linux scsi and fcoe lists that are not yet 
in the scsi maintainer's tree. I was going to send those patches once 
the review for those other patches was done upstream and the scsi 
maintainer had taken them.

> 
> What justification is there for this ?
> (If the answer involves the acronym 'RHEL' there are better ways
>  than shoving it into Fedora at the last minute)
> 

It might be both RHEL and fedora.

Hans de Goede is working on adding fcoe boot to F12, so I wanted to make 
sure that he and our users/testers had the most up to date fcoe kernel code.

I think fcoe boot is probably getting added to F12 for RHEL though. I 
also need to update the fcoe code for RHEL too.