Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:11:03 +0400 | From | Vladislav Bolkhovitin <> | Subject | Re: [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: linuxcon 2010... |
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Nicholas A. Bellinger, on 08/25/2010 01:23 AM wrote: > As mentioned explictly earlier in this thread, my WIP code for the > kernel level subsystem backstore using STGT kernel<-> user CDB > passthrough logic in drivers/target/target_core_stgt.c is a item on > my TODO list, but I will repeat, is NOT being tagged as a mainline > .37 item.
Hmm, I can't understand, if target_core_stgt.c is "NOT being tagged as a mainline .37 item", then the STGT ABI compatibility for being a drop in replacement for STGT isn't a requirement? Or am I missing something?
> Tomo-san, mnc, and other storage folks have been briefed on the > remaining issues that would be involved to get a prototype > functioning with drivers/target/target_core_stgt.c, and rough idea of > what it would take in existing mainline drivers/scsi/scsi_tgt_*.c > code. With the current WIP code this will allow the userspace CDB -> > LUN passthrough to function transparently with all TCM SPC-4 > compliant logic as a standalone struct se_subsystem_api > tcm_core_stgt.ko backstore.
This is exactly what we are discussing.
Thanks, Vlad
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