Re: [PATCH 0/8] target mode support

[James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>]

Ok.  My assumption is that it is preferred to be a single mode, but that
dual mode should be supported.  Please note that dual mode may impact some
of the feature set in the emulated target - and it'll be a trick to identify
that.

Hmm... what this leads me to is - there is a difference between the
pure SCSI behavior (performing a SCSI Read command), and the transport-level
SCSI behavior (Mode Pages; FCP: Conf, Recovery; iSCSI CmdSN/StatSN progression,
SNACK, RSP retransmission, etc). Although, these will be very tightly
integrated.  How does this code account for this ?  Are there transport-level
libraries in-between the LLDD and the SCSI Target ? Is it reflected in the
LLDD to SCSI Target messaging ?

-- james


Mike Christie wrote:
> James Smart wrote:
>> One question....
>>
>> Does this assume that an hba is both initiator and target ?  target only ?
>> Do we have any issues if a scsi_host is a target only ?
>>
> 
> I do not think that is fully worked out yet. The only target that is
> done is the vscsi one which is a little different from something like
> lpfc or qla*. I think some developers like Qlogic would prefer the
> driver and card is only in one mode or the other to simplify things.
> However, I think Tomo and users would like to be able to use a
> card/driver in both modes at the same time.
>