From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] scsi tgt Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:55:50 -0600 Message-ID: <43F4D8C6.2020300@cs.wisc.edu> References: <1140119612.20193.46.camel@max> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:51360 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030635AbWBPTz4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:55:56 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (c-69-180-176-191.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [69.180.176.191]) (authenticated bits=0) by sabe.cs.wisc.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1GJttBl019515 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:55:55 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1140119612.20193.46.camel@max> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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.