From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756137AbYEDLfm (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 07:35:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755016AbYEDLfb (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 07:35:31 -0400 Received: from mail-relay-01.mailcluster.net ([77.221.130.213]:50404 "EHLO mail-relay-01.mailcluster.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754932AbYEDLfa (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 07:35:30 -0400 Message-ID: <481D9F97.5090505@vlnb.net> Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 15:35:51 +0400 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Wilcox CC: Bart Van Assche , FUJITA Tomonori , James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SCSI target subsystem 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> <20080503095314.GX14976@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20080503095314.GX14976@parisc-linux.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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. Consider Bart as a member of SCST team at the moment responsible for Linux kernel inclusion. Vlad