From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Smart Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] target mode support Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:11:25 -0500 Message-ID: <455F229D.5060503@emulex.com> References: <20061116192358C.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <455C76D1.9050501@emulex.com> <20061118155910R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reply-To: James.Smart@Emulex.Com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from emulex.emulex.com ([138.239.112.1]:33730 "EHLO emulex.emulex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754625AbWKRPLl (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:11:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20061118155910R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > As Mike said, now a scsi_host can be used as a target only. We need > some more work to make one scsi_host support both initiator and target > mode. Can a LLD use two scsi_hosts (for initiator and target mode > respectively)? Sure.. a small amount of programming :) It does help some of the presentation, but may do so at the cost of a little code bloat. Unfortunately, the technical issues of sharing the transport port still exist, but that's true whether 1 or multiple scsi_hosts are being used. -- james s