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What:		/sys/bus/fcoe/
Date:		August 2012
KernelVersion:	TBD
Contact:	Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>, devel@open-fcoe.org
Description:	The FCoE bus. Attributes in this directory are control interfaces.
Attributes:

	ctlr_create: 'FCoE Controller' instance creation interface. Writing an
		     <ifname> to this file will allocate and populate sysfs with a
		     fcoe_ctlr_device (ctlr_X). The user can then configure any
		     per-port settings and finally write to the fcoe_ctlr_device's
		     'start' attribute to begin the kernel's discovery and login
		     process.

	ctlr_destroy: 'FCoE Controller' instance removal interface. Writing a
		       fcoe_ctlr_device's sysfs name to this file will log the
		       fcoe_ctlr_device out of the fabric or otherwise connected
		       FCoE devices. It will also free all kernel memory allocated
		       for this fcoe_ctlr_device and any structures associated
		       with it, this includes the scsi_host.

What:		/sys/bus/fcoe/devices/ctlr_X
Date:		March 2012
KernelVersion:	TBD
Contact:	Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>, devel@open-fcoe.org
Description:	'FCoE Controller' instances on the fcoe bus.
		The FCoE Controller now has a three stage creation process.
		1) Write interface name to ctlr_create 2) Configure the FCoE
		Controller (ctlr_X) 3) Enable the FCoE Controller to begin
		discovery and login. The FCoE Controller is destroyed by
		writing it's name, i.e. ctlr_X to the ctlr_delete file.

Attributes:

	fcf_dev_loss_tmo: Device loss timeout peroid (see below). Changing
			  this value will change the dev_loss_tmo for all
			  FCFs discovered by this controller.

	mode:		  Display or change the FCoE Controller's mode. Possible
			  modes are 'Fabric' and 'VN2VN'. If a FCoE Controller
			  is started in 'Fabric' mode then FIP FCF discovery is
			  initiated and ultimately a fabric login is attempted.
			  If a FCoE Controller is started in 'VN2VN' mode then
			  FIP VN2VN discovery and login is performed. A FCoE
			  Controller only supports one mode at a time.

	enabled:	  Whether an FCoE controller is enabled or disabled.
			  0 if disabled, 1 if enabled. Writing either 0 or 1
			  to this file will enable or disable the FCoE controller.

	lesb/link_fail:   Link Error Status Block (LESB) link failure count.

	lesb/vlink_fail:  Link Error Status Block (LESB) virtual link
			  failure count.

	lesb/miss_fka:    Link Error Status Block (LESB) missed FCoE
			  Initialization Protocol (FIP) Keep-Alives (FKA).

	lesb/symb_err:    Link Error Status Block (LESB) symbolic error count.

	lesb/err_block:   Link Error Status Block (LESB) block error count.

	lesb/fcs_error:   Link Error Status Block (LESB) Fibre Channel
			  Serivces error count.

Notes: ctlr_X (global increment starting at 0)

What:		/sys/bus/fcoe/devices/fcf_X
Date:		March 2012
KernelVersion:	TBD
Contact:	Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>, devel@open-fcoe.org
Description:	'FCoE FCF' instances on the fcoe bus. A FCF is a Fibre Channel
		Forwarder, which is a FCoE switch that can accept FCoE
		(Ethernet) packets, unpack them, and forward the embedded
		Fibre Channel frames into a FC fabric. It can also take
		outbound FC frames and pack them in Ethernet packets to
		be sent to their destination on the Ethernet segment.
Attributes:

	fabric_name: Identifies the fabric that the FCF services.

	switch_name: Identifies the FCF.

	priority:    The switch's priority amongst other FCFs on the same
		     fabric.

	selected:    1 indicates that the switch has been selected for use;
		     0 indicates that the swich will not be used.

	fc_map:      The Fibre Channel MAP

	vfid:	     The Virtual Fabric ID

	mac:         The FCF's MAC address

	fka_peroid:  The FIP Keep-Alive peroid

	fabric_state: The internal kernel state
		      "Unknown" - Initialization value
		      "Disconnected" - No link to the FCF/fabric
		      "Connected" - Host is connected to the FCF
		      "Deleted" - FCF is being removed from the system

	dev_loss_tmo: The device loss timeout peroid for this FCF.

Notes: A device loss infrastructre similar to the FC Transport's
       is present in fcoe_sysfs. It is nice to have so that a
       link flapping adapter doesn't continually advance the count
       used to identify the discovered FCF. FCFs will exist in a
       "Disconnected" state until either the timer expires and the
       FCF becomes "Deleted" or the FCF is rediscovered and becomes
       "Connected."


Users: The first user of this interface will be the fcoeadm application,
       which is commonly packaged in the fcoe-utils package.