A remote AoE device is something can process ATA commands and is identified by
an AoE shelf number and an AoE slot number.  Such a device might have more
than one network interface, and it might be reachable by more than one local
network interface.  This patch tracks the available network paths available to
each AoE device, allowing them to be used more efficiently.

Andrew Morton asked about the call to msleep_interruptible in the revalidate
function.  Yes, if a signal is pending, then msleep_interruptible will not
return 0.  That means we will not loop but will call aoenet_xmit with a NULL
skb, which is a noop.  If the system is too low on memory or the aoe driver is
too low on frames, then the user can hit control-C to interrupt the attempt to
do a revalidate.  I have added a comment to the code summarizing that.

Andrew Morton asked whether the allocation performed inside addtgt could use a
more relaxed allocation like GFP_KERNEL, but addtgt is called when the aoedev
lock has been locked with spin_lock_irqsave.  It would be nice to allocate the
memory under fewer restrictions, but targets are only added when the device is
being discovered, and if the target can't be added right now, we can try again
in a minute when then next AoE config query broadcast goes out.

Andrew Morton pointed out that the "too many targets" message could be printed
for failing GFP_ATOMIC allocations.  The last patch in this series makes the
messages more specific.
Signed-off-by: NEd L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NTony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Sam Hopkins <sah@coraid.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch addresses the concern that the aoe driver should
not introduce unecessary conventions that must be learned by
the reader.  It reverts patch 6.
Signed-off-by: N"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Use simple macros to clean up the printks.
(This patch is reverted by the 14th patch to follow.)
Signed-off-by: N"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add support for jumbo ethernet frames.
(This patch depends on patch 7 to follow.)
Signed-off-by: N"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The NARGS enum is left over from older code versions.
Signed-off-by: N"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Update the copyright year to 2006.
Signed-off-by: N"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NEric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Allow the driver to recognize AoE devices that have changed size.
Devices not in use are updated automatically, and devices that are in
use are updated at user request.
Signed-off-by: N"Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device
changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create().  This patch
fixes up all in-kernel users of the function.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!