[libvirt] [PATCH v5] npiv: Auto-generate WWN if it's not specified

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Feb 6 18:33:41 UTC 2012


On 02/06/2012 02:11 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
> The auto-generated WWN comply with the new addressing schema of WWN:
> 
> <quote>
> the first nibble is either hex 5 or 6 followed by a 3-byte vendor
> identifier and 36 bits for a vendor-specified serial number.
> </quote>
> 
> We choose hex 5 for the first nibble. And use Qumranet's OUI
> (00:1A:4A) as the 3-byte vendor indentifier. The last 36 bits
> are auto-generated.
> ---
>  src/conf/node_device_conf.c |   36 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  src/libvirt_private.syms    |    1 +
>  src/util/virrandom.c        |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  src/util/virrandom.h        |    1 +
>  4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

> +
> +#define QUMRANET_OUI "001a4a"
> +
> +int
> +virRandomGenerateWWN(char **wwn) {
> +   if (virAsprintf(wwn, "5" QUMRANET_OUI "%09" PRIx64,
> +                   virRandomBits(36)) < 0) {
> +       virReportOOMError();
> +       return -1;
> +   }
> +
> +   return 0;

ACK.  It looks a lot shorter than v4, which is a good thing :)

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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