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

[Dmitry Y. <dmi...@ya...>]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 01:18 -0700, Mike Christie wrote:
> 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.

ok. that is even easier. do you have some immediate plan to work out
this merge or should I come up with initial merged result?