From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ibmvscsis scsi target Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:12:44 +1000 Message-ID: <435EE61C.8020404@torque.net> References: <20051017143644.GA9992@cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20051017143644.GA9992@cs.umn.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Boutcher Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Dave Boutcher wrote: > James, > > Here's the ibmvscsis SCSI target submitted for inclusion in 2.4.15. > This driver meets a couple of akpm's criteria for worthiness, in that > its actually been shipping for a while in a distro kernel, and (given > the posts when I broke compatibility) is being used. > > This version is basically the same as the recent RFC version I sent > out, with a few bug fixes. It addresses a comment from Anton about > using gratuitously small max_sectors limits, and has a few other > miscellanious fixes. > > The only other significant comment generated by the the RFC was from > Christoph, and requested that this work be combined with the sgtg work > that Mike Christie and Tomonori Fujita are working on. I definitely > will start contributing to that work, and will convert this driver to > their framework when it becomes complete. I would rather not keep > this driver out of mainline for the amount of time that may take. Dave, While I'm partial to things that start with "sg...", I had problems finding that project until I tried "stgt". Reference to the Linux SCSI target project: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/stgt Doug Gilbert