Re: [PATCH 0/6] scsi tgt

[Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>]

Mike Christie wrote:
> The following patchset adds the basic infrastructure to support target
> mode in userspace. There are sevreral todo's left. They mostly require
> changes around us like to the packet layer, request queue etc. For
> Jeff's suggestion we are working on the packet layer suggestion, but are
> also looking into relayfs as a possibility.
> 
> This is not ready for mainline. Maybe ready for James to manage it in a
> tree, but not ready for heavy use. With some outstanding patches Tomo
> can install SLES to a scsi tgt LU. But we still need to add a lot of
> functionality to userspace. We basically need to add the state model
> code we just ripped out of the kernel to userspace becuase the current
> code is geared tword working on trying to maintain performance with a
> kernel implementation not add features/requirements like task management
> functions, support for tape and cd, etc.
> 

oh yeah, the patchset was made against scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.