From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: 'Christoph Hellwig' Subject: Re: Request for review of Linux iSCSI driver version 4.0.0.1 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:14:08 +0000 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031106111407.A16207@infradead.org> References: <005801c3a44a$5847c6e0$8f074d0a@apac.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:52240 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263517AbTKFLOK (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 06:14:10 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from andre@linux-ide.org on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:10:59AM -0800 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andre Hedrick Cc: "Sachin Mhatre (smhatre)" , 'Christoph Hellwig' , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, davmyers@cisco.com On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:10:59AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > It needs to be handled in the iSCSI driver. > Extending the operation to the entire midlayer will cause great grief to > all the HBA's which do not even support the abridged version of SBC call. > Some support only a subset of the subset of SCSI commands. Until all > HBA code has a means to report a positive list of commands supported, only > exception callers in the local real/virtual HBA appears doable. in the midlayer != enabled unconditionally. We just have much better infrastructure for this than a LLDD.