From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sagi Grimberg Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Include protection information in iscsi header Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 20:25:35 +0300 Message-ID: <5390A80F.5050305@dev.mellanox.co.il> References: <1401639581-20111-1-git-send-email-sagig@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: target-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Roland Dreier , Sagi Grimberg Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , Mike Christie , linux-scsi , target-devel , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , Oren Duer List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 6/3/2014 9:16 AM, Roland Dreier wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Sagi Grimberg wrote: >> Although these patches involve 3 subsystems with different >> maintainers (scsi, iser, target) I would prefer seeing these >> patches included together. > Why? Because they break wire compatibility? > > I hate to say it but even if they're merged at the same time, you > can't guarantee that targets and initiators will be updated together. Yes that's true, but still I would like to avoid a kernel release that the target and initiator can't talk to one another... Sagi.