On Mon, 08 Oct 2007, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If the aic94xx chip doesn't have a SAS address in the chip's flash memory,
> use the request_firmware() interface to get one from userspace. This
> way, there's no debate as to who or how an address gets generated--it's
> totally up to the administrator to provide it if the card doesn't have one.
So how about factoring that out to a transport-level interface. How
about something along the lines of the following patch, whereby the
software driver upon detecting no valid WWPN, makes an upcall to each
interface's 'request_wwn()'. The data passed in from shost_gendev
should be enough for some helper script to cull relevent device bits
and perhaps offer some level of persistence... Off base?
Darrick, forgive the FC example, I don't do SAS...
--
av
--
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
index 7a7cfe5..5e0d953 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#include <linux/netlink.h>
#include <net/netlink.h>
#include <scsi/scsi_netlink_fc.h>
+#include <linux/firmware.h>
#include "scsi_priv.h"
#include "scsi_transport_fc_internal.h"
@@ -3251,6 +3252,30 @@ fc_vport_sched_delete(struct work_struct *work)
vport->channel, stat);
}
+int
+fc_request_wwn(struct Scsi_Host *shost, u64 *wwn)
+{
+ const struct firmware *fw;
+ int stat;
+
+ stat = request_firmware(&fw, "fc_addr", &shost->shost_gendev);
+ if (stat)
+ return stat;
+
+ if (fw->size < 16) {
+ stat = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ stat = fc_parse_wwn(fw->data, wwn);
+ if (stat)
+ return stat;
+
+out:
+ release_firmware(fw);
+ return stat;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fc_request_wwn);
/* Original Author: Martin Hicks */
MODULE_AUTHOR("James Smart");
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h b/include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h
index e466d88..e80c36c 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h
@@ -734,4 +734,6 @@ void fc_host_post_vendor_event(struct Scsi_Host *shost, u32 event_number,
*/
int fc_vport_terminate(struct fc_vport *vport);
+int fc_request_wwn(struct Scsi_Host *, u64 *);
+
#endif /* SCSI_TRANSPORT_FC_H */
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