From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target drivers Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 05:23:37 -0800 Message-ID: <20150305132337.GA32341@infradead.org> References: <54B7E70C.8020304@sandisk.com> <20150119092153.GA8666@infradead.org> <54BCD00D.4080603@sandisk.com> <54E7112F.2080901@sandisk.com> <1424476807.1477.52.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <54ED8B38.10904@sandisk.com> <1425074315.30923.74.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <54F1ADAF.90808@sandisk.com> <1425279574.13530.53.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <54F6DD3B.4030207@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:44516 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750958AbbCENXn (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:23:43 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54F6DD3B.4030207@sandisk.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , Christoph Hellwig , "Dr. Greg Wettstein" , "lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org" , target-devel , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" This is exactly why I didn't want to put this topic onto the LSF agenda. There are tons of very useful fixes and cleanus in Barts series, and I'd really like to get them in ASAP. As Nic pointed out (in a slightly unhelpful tone) we're not interested in adding any hooks for out of tree code. But if SCST needs hooks it should eithe switch to the in-kerel way of doing it, or if has a clearly better way of doing it merge that into the kernel. I'm pretty sure there are various pieces that would make a lot of sense to merge either way, and getting towards a single target with a broad maintainer and user base seem like a way better approach that adding weird hooks. But I don't think that's even on the table for LSF this year, maybe next year if everyone involved works hard on it.