Re: [PATCH 4/10][RFC] linux-iscsi driver

Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-11T09:59:21Z

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:45:18PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 23:24 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Can you kill the ugly iscsi-sfnet name? We also don't call out networking
> > code ipv4-swansea ;-) Simple iscsi should be enough, or if you think that's
> > confusing vs driver for hardware offload cards maybe sw-iscsi.
>
> Please not that can of worms again.
>
> For the time being I think iscsi-sfnet will do since there's still one
> other possible linux iscsi stack around. And we would probably have
> called our networking code ipv4-swansea if we also had an ipv4-bsd or
> something else one could use.
>
> In the long run, there will be only a single iscsi driver, and it can be
> renamed as such, but in the short term we're not ready to choose.

I disagree. We have been concentrating on this driver for a long time,
everyone whoe thinks his driver should have been _the_ software initiator
should have complained for a long time.