[linux-iscsi-devel] Re: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks?

[Mike C. <mic...@cs...>]

Dmitry Yusupov wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:13 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
>>One important thing that needs working out is the proper splitup between
>>scsi_transport_iscsi, iscsi_if and iscsi_tcp.  The current split is not
>>so nice, we really only want one transport class thing, so iscsi_if
>>should merge into scsi_transport_iscsi.
> 
> 
> Exactly what I was thinking of. I always had a thought that having
> iscsi_if and scsi_transport_iscsi separated is not very clean from
> mainline kernel perspective.
> 
> iscsi_if should just disappear and be part of scsi_transport_iscsi.
> 
> One potential issue with that is that other initiators relying on it.
> So, this merge should be backward compatible at least for a while, so it
> will not break much existing initiators. I care only about 4.x branch
> frankly.
> 

I do not think backaward compat should be a concern.

For 4.x, we are set. People that want new stuff should be testing out 
open-iscsi, so there is no worry about upgrading kernels and breaking crap.

As far as qla4010 and Pyx, neither are in mainline and their 
developement is ongoging so it should not be a big deal. Pyx is also 
pushing for something much different so....