From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: [PATCH 0/3 ver2] iscsi bidi & varlen support Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:08:37 +0200 Message-ID: <47B99F75.6030400@panasas.com> References: <47A20E85.6040906@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gw-colo-pa.panasas.com ([66.238.117.130]:10405 "EHLO cassoulet.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753089AbYBRPJP (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:09:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47A20E85.6040906@panasas.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Christie , Pete Wyckoff , James Bottomley Cc: linux-scsi , open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, Benny Halevy , Daniel.E.Messinger@seagate.com On Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 20:08 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > Cheers after 1.3 years these can go in. > > [PATCH 1/3] iscsi: extended cdb support > The varlen support is not yet in mainline for > block and scsi-ml. But the API for drivers will > not change. All LLD need to do is max_command to > the it's maximum and be ready for bigger commands. > This is what's done here. Once these commands start > coming iscsi will be ready for them. > > [PATCH 2/3] iscsi: bidi support - libiscsi > [PATCH 3/3] iscsi: bidi support - iscsi_tcp > bidirectional commands support in iscsi. > iSER is not yet ready, but it will not break. > There is already a mechanism in libiscsi that will > return error if bidi commands are sent iSER way. > > Pete please send me the iSER bits so we can port them > to this latest version. > > Mike these patches are ontop of iscs branch of the iscsi > git tree, they will apply but for compilation you will need > to sync with Linus mainline. The patches are for the in-tree > iscsi code. I own you the compat patch for the out-off-tree > code, but this I will only be Sunday. > > If we do it fast it might get accepted to 2.6.25 merge window > > Everybody is invited to a party at Shila ben-yhuda 52 Tel-Aviv > 9:45 pm. Drinks and wonderful see-food on us :) > > Boaz > > - Everything the same as before. But working this time. Also Pete's comment about second patch, was correct and code is now fixed. I have got Mike's Signed-off-by, on these they were tested and approved by him. So they are for scsi-misc. But ... James? is there any chance these can go into scsi-rc-fixes for the 2.6.25 kernel? The reason they are so late was mainly because of a fallout in the merge process and a bug that was introduced because of that, but they were intended to go together with bidi into 2.6.25. Also as an important client code to the bidi-api that is introduced in 2.6.25 kernel. Thanks Boaz