Re: status of drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 01/27/2014 04:45 PM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:50:38 -0800
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> Do you know if either SRP or ibmvscsi are used regularly these days?
>>>> Does tgtd userspace still support this interface?
>>>
>>> It doesn't. I think that ibm pseries switched to virtual fc driver
>>> from virtual srp long ago. Only very old pseries could use the
>>> driver. I'm not sure there are any users of the driver. I guess that
>>> you could try to remove the driver to see if someone would complain.
>>
>> Should we try to throw in a deprecation warnings for this merge window
>> and see if anyone cares, or go ahead and remove it entirely?
> 
> Either is fine by me.

I actually know of a customer using this (with a semi-proprietary
target mode driver). I'll be asking him what his plans are.

Cheers,

Hannes
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