From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25.1] Add scsi_execute_async_fifo() Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 22:21:08 +0400 Message-ID: <481B5B94.8050407@vlnb.net> References: <200805021638.42972.bart.vanassche@gmail.com> <20080502153306.GB7376@infradead.org> <20080502155525.GA16353@infradead.org> <20080502161629.GF14976@parisc-linux.org> <20080502164905.GH14976@parisc-linux.org> <20080502170244.GI14976@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-relay-01.mailcluster.net ([77.221.130.213]:52972 "EHLO mail-relay-01.mailcluster.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763115AbYEBSUl (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 14:20:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080502170244.GI14976@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Bart Van Assche , Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Mike Christie , FUJITA Tomonori Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:57:10PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> Thanks for looking this up. Would it be an acceptable approach if the >> SCST code is modified such that it calls the code inside >> drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c whenever this is appropriate ? > > You need to talk to Mike and Tomo. > >>>From my point of view, the most important bit is the target layer <-> > driver API. ie the transfer_response() method in the host template. > I'm sure other people have their own preferences though. SCST can't use anything from STGT or other SCSI targets support functionality of the kernel. But it can integrate inside something from transport attributes. See my e-mail with subject "SCSI target subsystem" why. Vlad