Re: [iSCSI][Q+RFC] login response, tsid

["Robert D. Russell" <rdr@io.iol.unh.edu>]

Luben:

> 2. Login response PDU, status-class, status-detail.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to use one 16-bit unsigned integer
> for this information, call it ``status''
>
> Then this ``status'' can be _logically_ split into
> ``class'' (8 MSb) and ``detail'' (8 LSb).
>
> But an implementation (HBA, software, etc) will use
> it as a 16-bit unsigned integer.
>
> Comments?

I see no reason to combine the status class and status detail
fields into 1 field if the implementation just has to split
them apart again.  What benefit is there to combining them?
I vote against this idea.

Bob Russell
InterOperability Lab
University of New Hampshire
rdr@iol.unh.edu
603-862-3774