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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA.
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:20:30 +0300
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On 09/01/2009 07:13 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Umm, we do share code between SCSI drivers.  We have the ULDs (sg, sd,
> sr, etc), we have the midlayer, and we have the transport classes (spi,
> iscsi, fc, etc).
> 

This makes a tons of sense. a scsi_transport_paravirt can have lots of common
nubs. I bet administrators would love such common management facility.

Boaz