Re: [linux-iscsi-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] replace ioctl for sysfs take 2

[AJ Lewis <alewis@redhat.com>]

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On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 11:15:00AM -0700, Mike Christie wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:32:51PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> >>On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:20:42AM -0500, AJ Lewis wrote:
> >>
> >>>Do we want all these attributes in the scsi_host class, or should we put
> >>>them in the iscsi devices directory?  So in
> >>>/sys/bus/iscsi-sfnet/devices/iscsi1 -
> >
> >
> >Woah, woah, woah.  What's this "iscsi-sfnet" directory in sysfs?  That's
> >just wrong. 
> 
> It is only a pseudo bus for the driver from Christoph's suggestion, that's
> just to make probing and removing of the driver's devices easier (it looks
> like a normal scsi driver now).
> 
> > No way is that crap going into the kernel.  We have to have
> >*one* iscsi infrastructure, not a dozen.
> >
> 
> Don't worry, there is no way we are going to put transport, scsi or anything
> like that there. This driver will use the scsi-ml infrastucture for sysfs
> and this includes using the transport classes. I think this comment from AJ,
> was just in error when he was unaware of scsi-ml's transport classes. 

Yeah - that was me being ignorant of the transport classes.  Speaking of
which, is anyone working on a transport class for iscsi?  I see a patch for
one in the archives
( http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=108033504301079&w=2 ), but it
looks like the discussion sort of died off and nothing ever got accepted.  I'd
be willing to put together a patch for an iscsi transport class if no one else
is working on one right now.

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