From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755015AbaIVVA5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:00:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56716 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754835AbaIVVAz (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:00:55 -0400 Message-ID: <54208E03.8030906@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:00:51 -0700 From: Andy Grover Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" CC: Alex Elsayed , target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] target: Add a user-passthrough backstore References: <1410822750-10717-1-git-send-email-agrover@redhat.com> <1410822750-10717-5-git-send-email-agrover@redhat.com> <1411161279.23258.26.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <1411169965.23258.45.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> <541CCBD1.8050606@redhat.com> <1411419532.24986.36.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> In-Reply-To: <1411419532.24986.36.camel@haakon3.risingtidesystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/22/2014 01:58 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > So I'd still like to start for an initial merge with the two different > modes mentioned earlier. The pure-passthrough mode where everything is > handled by user-space, and an I/O passthrough mode where only > SCF_SCSI_DATA_CDB is passed along to userspace, but all other control > CDBs are handled by existing in-kernel emulation. > > Andy, can you re-spin a series with these two approaches in mind..? Will do. This is actually close to what the initial RFC version I posted did. -- Andy