From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:28:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4673047F.30808@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
>> Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore.
If you can access the firmware/hypervisor code, have that provide SCSI.
Then the Linux driver piece is easy, obvious and flexible SCSI, and is
not "fake."
> If the SCSI guys were smart, there would be a totally generic helper
> layer that allows anyone to hook into the SCSI layer as a virtual SCSI
> disk provider in like 10 lines of code. :-)
The SCSI target code gives you the capability to do that (the SCSI
transport part, the virtual storage part is easy from there).
Jeff
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:28:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4673047F.30808@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
>> Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore.
If you can access the firmware/hypervisor code, have that provide SCSI.
Then the Linux driver piece is easy, obvious and flexible SCSI, and is
not "fake."
> If the SCSI guys were smart, there would be a totally generic helper
> layer that allows anyone to hook into the SCSI layer as a virtual SCSI
> disk provider in like 10 lines of code. :-)
The SCSI target code gives you the capability to do that (the SCSI
transport part, the virtual storage part is easy from there).
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-15 11:39 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 2 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 1/6] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 13:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 13:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:25 ` [patch 1/6] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH Milton Miller
2007-06-19 11:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 2/6] ps3: Storage Driver Core Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 3/6] PS3: Storage device registration routines Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 14:35 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 14:35 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 18:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:19 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:19 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:08 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:08 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:28 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:28 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 6:07 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-16 6:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-16 6:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 6:03 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 6:03 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 7:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 7:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:17 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:17 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-06-15 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:55 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:55 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 12:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 12:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 5/6] ps3: ROM " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:30 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 5:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 12:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-20 12:16 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 6/6] ps3: FLASH " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:30 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 12:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-21 14:14 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 3 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-21 14:14 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-21 14:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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