Re: need help to merge (small) virtual scsi driver upstream.

[Henrik Stokseth <henrik@hw0.org>]

FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>
>
> From a quick look at the patch, your driver links requests to a list
> and then the user-space daemon reads the requests via the special
> character device file and sends the response back to kernel space.
>
> If I correctly understand what you want, there are some possible
> alternatives, I guess.
>
> Note that I'm not sure 2) and 3) is acceptable to the SCSI maintainer.
>
>
> 1) use iSCSI initiator and target on the same machine
>
> First, set up iSCSI target software supporting CD/DVD. For example,
> you can use tgt (http://stgt.berlios.de), user-space program.
>
> Then you set up the iSCSI initiator to connect the target. Basically,
> the iSCSI initiator works like a virtual hba as you like. The iSCSI
> initiator and target communicate via tcp while your software
> communicates via the special character device.
>
> If you go with this setup, all you need are already in mainline.
>   

It would be desirable for us to rely upon an interface already present
in the mainstream kernel for practical reasons.

Pardon the dumb question but is it possible to talk to the TGT framework
without using iSCSI?
SCST has a nice user-space interface but I couldn't tell whether STGT
had something similar (as documentation is pretty much non-existent).

ありがとう。


Sincerely,
Henrik Stokseth.

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