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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iscsi-target: Merge for .40-rc1
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 12:19:47 +0200
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> > Given that we pretty well tested and working code that's used in lots
> > of production setups my vote is for taking it as-is unless someone can
> > actually show a prototype for a nicely working user/kernel split.
> 
> As far as I know such a user/kernel split has been implemented in both
> IET and SCST and is working fine in both of these projects.

Which are unrelated codebases - if you want to offer a competing iSCSI
implementation for the core target framework we have in mainline based
on the codebase go ahead.

> And here is another issue that still hasn't been resolved yet:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=129707890023739&w=2.

This is related to the software iSCSI fronted in what way?