From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762477AbYECJxl (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 05:53:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757237AbYECJxb (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 05:53:31 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:43591 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752886AbYECJxb (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2008 05:53:31 -0400 Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 03:53:14 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Bart Van Assche Cc: FUJITA Tomonori , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: SCSI target subsystem Message-ID: <20080503095314.GX14976@parisc-linux.org> References: <200805021638.42972.bart.vanassche@gmail.com> <20080502153306.GB7376@infradead.org> <20080502155525.GA16353@infradead.org> <1209745084.3121.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <481B5AB8.5030108@vlnb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:41:41AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > I wrote all above to support my at first glance shocking conclusion that > > SCSI target subsystem is completely new subsystem of the kernel and it > > should live on its own with its own maintainer! This is the same as with the > > current interaction between SCSI and block subsystems in the kernel: SCSI > > uses block's functionality, but that doesn't mean that block and SCSI are > > the same subsystem. > > Hello Tomo, > > Due to the IET and STGT projects you have a lot of experience with > implementing SCSI target frameworks. What is your opinion about how a > kernel space SCSI target framework should fit in the Linux kernel ? Bart, what is your role in the SCST project? You don't seem to have contributed any code to it (going by the SVN logs on sourceforge), and your questions and suggestions seem to be those of someone not familiar with the code. If you're not a developer, it might be more helpful for you to step back and let Vladislav handle this. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."