From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>, hch@infradead.org
Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: status of drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:58:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E79B6C.3090809@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140128.004504.1305564732068179852.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
On 01/27/2014 04:45 PM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:50:38 -0800
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>>>> Do you know if either SRP or ibmvscsi are used regularly these days?
>>>> Does tgtd userspace still support this interface?
>>>
>>> It doesn't. I think that ibm pseries switched to virtual fc driver
>>> from virtual srp long ago. Only very old pseries could use the
>>> driver. I'm not sure there are any users of the driver. I guess that
>>> you could try to remove the driver to see if someone would complain.
>>
>> Should we try to throw in a deprecation warnings for this merge window
>> and see if anyone cares, or go ahead and remove it entirely?
>
> Either is fine by me.
I actually know of a customer using this (with a semi-proprietary
target mode driver). I'll be asking him what his plans are.
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-28 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-24 13:15 status of drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_lib.c Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-25 3:48 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2014-01-27 7:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-27 15:45 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2014-01-28 11:58 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2014-01-30 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-30 9:06 ` Hannes Reinecke
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