From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762777AbXH3Qrb (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:47:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760136AbXH3QrV (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:47:21 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]:30997 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758176AbXH3QrU (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:47:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j7cqDEtKtJr/hI/uGQkCOOEAHkZYF+K2lzArSV2z7GHLOZFbJohhBMWDX5AXcCBJH9UZdKbHbylyUmBfk3KKWA9nIrgXb0wa0Z9YBHM02vNsoToVtqC2RlkcFBd1cEAO/APIZ1uSSOZT98zkyZCRHXnc9vqQkFgGujj3OpD7Y2U= Message-ID: <7579f7fb0708300947r4bae76a8j3715316741f3563f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:19 -0700 From: "Matthew Jacob" To: "Seokmann Ju" Subject: Re: FC - NPIV in 2.6.23-rc2 Cc: "Abhishek Kane" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-driver@qlogic.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <46D6EFE7.40802@qlogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46D6EFE7.40802@qlogic.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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 support NPIV, besides the controller. > No, if the switch doesn't suport NP-IV, the 24XX f/w will come up in Public Loop mode (FL).