Generic SCSI Target Subsystem For Linux

Am 24.01.2012 11:39, schrieb Thomas Broda:

> To start with the problem first - the "enable qla2xxx target" option
> is not showing up in the kernel configuration created with "make
> menuconfig". I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong since I 
> succeeded
> to build an older SCST / QLA2xxx target release about a year ago (but
> I forgot what I exactly did then).

It must be related to revision 4090. I've tried an older revision 
(4065), and the kernel config option is there.

Greetings,

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Thomas Broda <thomas@...> wrote:

> I'm trying to build a qla2xxx-target enabled kernel unter Ubuntu 10.04.
> I've checked out revison 4090 from svn.
>
> To start with the problem first - the "enable qla2xxx target" option is
> not showing up in the kernel configuration created with "make
> menuconfig". I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong since I succeeded
> to build an older SCST / QLA2xxx target release about a year ago (but I
> forgot what I exactly did then).
>
> What I've done so far:
>
> 1. Downloaded the kernel sources from the Ubuntu repositories. I've
> tried the sources for 2.6.32 and 3.2.0, both with the same result.
>
> 2. Untarred them in /usr/src
>
> 3. Checked out SCST from svn
>
> 4. Applied the scst_exec_req_fifo patch for the appropriate kernel
>
> 5. Renamed the original
> /usr/src/linux-source-{2.6.32|3.0.2}/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx directory
>
> 5. Created a symlink
> "/usr/src/linux-source-{2.6.32|3.0.2}/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx", pointing to
> "/usr/src/trunk/qla2x00t"
>
> Did I forget anything in order to make the "enable qla2xxx target"
> option show up in the "menuconfig" kernel configuration?
>

It looks like you have been following the old and outdated qla2x00t build
instructions. Please follow these build instructions:
http://scst.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scst/trunk/qla2x00t/doc/qla2x00t-howto.html?revision=HEAD
.

Thanks,

Bart.

Thomas Broda, on 01/24/2012 10:04 AM wrote:
> Am 24.01.2012 11:39, schrieb Thomas Broda:
> 
>> To start with the problem first - the "enable qla2xxx target" option
>> is not showing up in the kernel configuration created with "make
>> menuconfig". I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong since I 
>> succeeded
>> to build an older SCST / QLA2xxx target release about a year ago (but
>> I forgot what I exactly did then).
> 
> It must be related to revision 4090. I've tried an older revision 
> (4065), and the kernel config option is there.

Strange. I'm doing it all the time and it works well.

Vlad