[PATCH 0/3] ibmvscsis scsi target

Douglas Gilbert dougg at torque.net
Wed Oct 26 12:12:44 EST 2005


Dave Boutcher wrote:
> James,
> 
> Here's the ibmvscsis SCSI target submitted for inclusion in 2.4.15.
> This driver meets a couple of akpm's criteria for worthiness, in that
> its actually been shipping for a while in a distro kernel, and (given
> the posts when I broke compatibility) is being used.
> 
> This version is basically the same as the recent RFC version I sent
> out, with a few bug fixes.  It addresses a comment from Anton about
> using gratuitously small max_sectors limits, and has a few other
> miscellanious fixes.
> 
> The only other significant comment generated by the the RFC was from
> Christoph, and requested that this work be combined with the sgtg work
> that Mike Christie and Tomonori Fujita are working on.  I definitely
> will start contributing to that work, and will convert this driver to
> their framework when it becomes complete.  I would rather not keep
> this driver out of mainline for the amount of time that may take.

Dave,
While I'm partial to things that start with "sg...", I
had problems finding that project until I tried "stgt".
Reference to the Linux SCSI target project:
  http://developer.berlios.de/projects/stgt

Doug Gilbert




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