From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ibmvscsis scsi target Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 09:51:41 +0300 Message-ID: <436861FD.6080300@vlnb.net> References: <20051017143644.GA9992@cs.umn.edu> <435EE61C.8020404@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from relay03.infobox.ru ([195.208.235.28]:27534 "EHLO relay03.infobox.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932628AbVKBHxK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 02:53:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <435EE61C.8020404@torque.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: dougg@torque.net Cc: Dave Boutcher , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Douglas Gilbert wrote: > 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". Doug, Dave, Have you seen SCST (SCSI target mid-layer for Linux) on http://scst.sourceforge.net? It's much more advanced, than stgt, and much more moved ahead. Vlad