Re: [PATCH 0/3] ibmvscsis scsi target

[Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>]

Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Dave Boutcher wrote:
> 
>>James,
>>
>>Here's the ibmvscsis SCSI target submitted for inclusion in 2.4.15.
>>This driver meets a couple of akpm's criteria for worthiness, in that
>>its actually been shipping for a while in a distro kernel, and (given
>>the posts when I broke compatibility) is being used.
>>
>>This version is basically the same as the recent RFC version I sent
>>out, with a few bug fixes.  It addresses a comment from Anton about
>>using gratuitously small max_sectors limits, and has a few other
>>miscellanious fixes.
>>
>>The only other significant comment generated by the the RFC was from
>>Christoph, and requested that this work be combined with the sgtg work
>>that Mike Christie and Tomonori Fujita are working on.  I definitely
>>will start contributing to that work, and will convert this driver to
>>their framework when it becomes complete.  I would rather not keep
>>this driver out of mainline for the amount of time that may take.
> 
> 
> Dave,
> While I'm partial to things that start with "sg...", I
> had problems finding that project until I tried "stgt".

Doug, Dave,

Have you seen SCST (SCSI target mid-layer for Linux) on 
http://scst.sourceforge.net? It's much more advanced, than stgt, and 
much more moved ahead.

Vlad