Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 May 1999 12:50:10 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Wish list for kernel 2.3 |
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Hi!
> > Network: SCSI over IP > > I'd like to see this too. > > > I would help coding all this, but someone must say me what to do how. I > > have good C and ASM knowledge, but nearly no knowledge in kernel > > programming. Sorry to say, but the documentation isn't the best. > > Ok, you asked for it: > > I _think_ it should be possible to do entirely in userspace by using > code similar to scarabd (ftp://pc110.ro.nu/pub/scarab/) and > scsi-generic layer > (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/scsi-generic.txt). Performance of this > hack will not be the best under the sun, but it should work well > enough to be usefull. Once it works, port into kernelspace should not > be too hard.
I was told things are not as easy as I painted them: you'll need to hack scsi driver to work in other mode - ie. not send commands but receive commands as well. This is probably not yet supported by scsi-generic. Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+
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