From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Subject: Re: [PATCH-v2 00/14] iscsi-target: iSCSI target v4.1.0-rc1 series initial merge Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:30:03 -0700 Message-ID: <1301301003.23175.122.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> References: <1300949980.18039.222.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <1301012333.4087.24.camel@mulgrave.site> <1301087690.6087.126.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <20110327185119V.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.linux-iscsi.org ([67.23.28.174]:51865 "EHLO linux-iscsi.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750776Ab1C1IhZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:37:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110327185119V.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: James.Bottomley@suse.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, hare@suse.de, bharrosh@panasas.com On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 19:02 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:14:50 -0700 > "Nicholas A. Bellinger" wrote: > > > What I am saying is that only the optional to implement iSCSI > > authentication *payloads* should have a request/response interface with > > userspace daemons for those types of auth libs that we always expect to > > We don't need such interface (authentication *payloads* between kernel > and user spaces). All operations (including authentication) before > establishing a nexus should be done in userspace. > -- No, the interface I speak of is most definately not specific to iSCSI authentication payloads. What I meant here is that iscsi-target should be sending RFC-3720 optional authentication type specific key=value payloads into userspace daemon(s) using some form of acceptable mainline kernel <-> user interface in mainline kernel code. This interface also really needs to be 64-bit kernel / 32-bit user safe as well. --nab