Fiber channel driver for Broadcom/Emulex FC host bus adapters.

[Scott Long]

Hi Ram,

Great to hear.  Might I suggest that you post the code for review via the Phabricator system?  Instructions
for doing this are here:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Phabricator

Thanks,
Scott

> On May 12, 2017, at 12:09 AM, Ram Kishore Vegesna via freebsd-scsi <freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.
> 
> I am working on restructuring the driver code which will be good for
> integrating into FreeBSD. Will post the driver for review once its done.
> 
> -Ram
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Ken Merry <ken at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> That is good news!  It will be good to have the driver in the tree.
>> 
>> As for how to get it into FreeBSD:
>> 
>> 1. Make sure it is BSD-licsened.  GPLed code isn’t allowed in the kernel.
>> Other licenses (MIT, CDDL) might be possible.  Here is an example license:
>> 
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/examples/etc/
>> bsd-style-copyright?revision=180207&view=markup
>> 
>> 2. Get a committer to review it.  I can do that if you like.  I may still
>> have some 16Gb boards from when I was reviewing the Emulex FC driver in
>> 2012.
>> 
>> 3. Once you get past the review, you can either have the committer put it
>> in the tree, or wait until we get one or more Emulex developers approved as
>> committers.  See #4.
>> 
>> 4. Decide on one or more Emulex developers to maintain the driver as
>> FreeBSD committers.  These should be people who are likely to stay on the
>> project for a while, so new folks don’t need to be brought up to speed too
>> often.  The new committers will need one or more current committers as
>> mentors, and all commits will have to be approved until the mentor is
>> satisfied that the new committer is ready to go on their own.  The
>> committers’ guide will give you an idea of what is involved:
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/
>> 
>> The eventual goal will be to have one or more Emulex folks who are
>> committers and can maintain the driver in the FreeBSD tree.
>> 
>> There are two FreeBSD committers (at least) from Broadcom, Steve McConnell
>> and Kashyap Desai.  They work on the SAS and MegaRAID products.
>> 
>> As for timelines, we’re about to start the process for FreeBSD 11.1.
>> Depending on the state of the driver, it may be possible to get it into
>> 11.1, but it’s hard to say that with any certainty until we see the driver.
>> 
>> Ken
>> —
>> Ken Merry
>> ken at FreeBSD.ORG
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 11, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Ram Kishore Vegesna via freebsd-scsi <
>> freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We are planning to upstream/inbox our FreeBSD cam driver which supports
>> Emulex FC host bus adapters (LPe16xx and LPe32xx family).
>> 
>> Please provide me the inputs on process of up-streaming driver. If you can
>> share any documents related to that will be of great help.
>> 
>> Note: Please correct me if I am posting the request on wrong mailing list.
>> If possible provide the maintainer contact.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ram
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