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diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt index d403e46d846..38d324d62b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Overview: discussion will concentrate on NPIV. Note: World Wide Name assignment (and uniqueness guarantees) are left - up to an administrative entity controling the vport. For example, + up to an administrative entity controlling the vport. For example, if vports are to be associated with virtual machines, a XEN mgmt utility would be responsible for creating wwpn/wwnn's for the vport, using it's own naming authority and OUI. (Note: it already does this @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Device Trees and Vport Objects: Here's what to expect in the device tree : The typical Physical Port's Scsi_Host: /sys/devices/.../host17/ - and it has the typical decendent tree: + and it has the typical descendant tree: /sys/devices/.../host17/rport-17:0-0/target17:0:0/17:0:0:0: and then the vport is created on the Physical Port: /sys/devices/.../host17/vport-17:0-0 @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ Vport States: independent of the adapter's link state. - Instantiation of the vport on the FC link via ELS traffic, etc. This is equivalent to a "link up" and successfull link initialization. - Futher information can be found in the interfaces section below for + Further information can be found in the interfaces section below for Vport Creation. Once a vport has been instantiated with the kernel/LLDD, a vport state @@ -436,6 +436,42 @@ Other: was updated to remove all vports for the fc_host as well. +Transport supplied functions +---------------------------- + +The following functions are supplied by the FC-transport for use by LLDs. + + fc_vport_create - create a vport + fc_vport_terminate - detach and remove a vport + +Details: + +/** + * fc_vport_create - Admin App or LLDD requests creation of a vport + * @shost: scsi host the virtual port is connected to. + * @ids: The world wide names, FC4 port roles, etc for + * the virtual port. + * + * Notes: + * This routine assumes no locks are held on entry. + */ +struct fc_vport * +fc_vport_create(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct fc_vport_identifiers *ids) + +/** + * fc_vport_terminate - Admin App or LLDD requests termination of a vport + * @vport: fc_vport to be terminated + * + * Calls the LLDD vport_delete() function, then deallocates and removes + * the vport from the shost and object tree. + * + * Notes: + * This routine assumes no locks are held on entry. + */ +int +fc_vport_terminate(struct fc_vport *vport) + + Credits ======= The following people have contributed to this document: |