From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:28:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4673047F.30808@garzik.org> References: <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59855 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755415AbXFOV3D (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:29:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller , Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org David Miller wrote: > From: Geert Uytterhoeven >> Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore. If you can access the firmware/hypervisor code, have that provide SCSI. Then the Linux driver piece is easy, obvious and flexible SCSI, and is not "fake." > If the SCSI guys were smart, there would be a totally generic helper > layer that allows anyone to hook into the SCSI layer as a virtual SCSI > disk provider in like 10 lines of code. :-) The SCSI target code gives you the capability to do that (the SCSI transport part, the virtual storage part is easy from there). Jeff