Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] LIO/SCST Merger

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 10:19 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 01/27/2016 10:08 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 09:54 -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > Last year, during the 2015 LSF/MM summit, it has been decided
> > > that
> > > the LIO/SCST merger project should proceed by sending the
> > > functionality upstream that is present in SCST but not yet in
> > > LIO.
> > > This will help to reduce the workload of target driver
> > > maintainers
> > > that maintain a version of their target driver for both LIO and
> > > SCST
> > > (QLogic FC and FCoE target drivers, Emulex FC and FCoE target
> > > drivers, RDMA iSER target driver, RDMA SRP target driver, ...).
> > > My
> > > proposal is to organize a session during which the following is
> > > discussed:
> > > * Which patches are already upstream in the context of the
> > > LIO/SCST
> > > merger project.
> > > * About which patches there is agreement but that are not yet
> > > upstream.
> > > * To discuss how to proceed from here and what to address first.
> > 
> > Can you begin this in email ... I don't think any of us are clear
> > if
> > there's still an issue here ... or that we'd say more than send the
> > patches upstream, like we did last year.  Just reporting on patch
> > status isn't that useful ... if there were design disputes or
> > issues to
> > discuss that caused the patches not to be accepted, that would be
> > more
> > useful.
> 
> Hello James,
> 
> Several patch series have been posted by different authors. Some of 
> these patch series have already been reworked several times for 
> different kernel versions. I think a meeting in person would make it 
> easier to discuss which patch series to take upstream first and 
> thereby avoid to have to keep reworking these patch series against an
> evolving target API. These patch series are:
> 
> * Christoph Hellwig, [RFC] simplify session shutdown, January 14 
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi.target.devel/11135).
> * Nicholas Bellinger, [PATCH 0/2] target: Fix LUN_RESET active I/O +
> TMR 
> handling, January 12, 2016 
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi.target.devel/11097).
> * Bart Van Assche,  [PATCH 00/21] SCSI target patches for kernel
> v4.5, 
> January 5 (
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi.target.devel/10905)

So you don't really want a topic, you want a BoF?  We can do that.

James