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

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

Not sure you got it first time, so I re-post.

Next links should give you brief introduction on what is current user-
space vs. kernel-space design is:

1) Modules:
http://www.open-iscsi.org/docs/open-iscsi-0.jpg

2) Startup, Login, Read/Write as an example for iSCSI over TCP/IP:
http://www.open-iscsi.org/docs/open-iscsi-1.jpg

3) ERL=0 Recovery cycle as an example for iSCSI over TCP/IP:
http://www.open-iscsi.org/docs/open-iscsi-2.jpg

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:37 -0700, Duane Grigsby wrote:
> Ok, I'll get on those discussions.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Yusupov [mailto:dmi...@ya...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:50 AM
> To: Duane Grigsby
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; ope...@go...; linux-iscsi
> development team; lin...@vg...
> Subject: RE: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks?
> 
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:29 -0700, Duane Grigsby wrote:
> > No, that's not true; we are TOTALLY committed to getting all of our
> > drivers in the upstream kernel. I have been working on the ISCSI
> driver
> > cleanup to the level of our Fibre Channel driver as Andrew has done.
> I'm
> > making it conform to the current linux-scsi API, ISCSI transport, and
> > stripping out all of the failover baggage. My goal is the have
> something
> > upstream in 2 - 3 weeks, if not before.   
> 
> But don't you think it is better to have integrated solution for all
> iSCSI transports including QLogic's HBA and have unified user-space set
> of tools? How about collaborate on this issue and come up with somewhat
> generic which will fit with ongoing efforts we have today:
>  
> 1) iSCSI/TCP
> 2) your QLogic's HBA
> 3) iSER/IB
> 
> I think those three projects combined could come up with generic iSCSI
> solution(including user-space tools and API) which will really fit for
> everyone else on the planet.
> 
> It would be really nice if you would participate in ongoing interface
> discussion on next mailing lists:
> 
> 1) lin...@li...
> 2) ope...@go...
> 3) isc...@li...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lin...@vg...
> > [mailto:lin...@vg...] On Behalf Of Christoph
> Hellwig
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 1:49 AM
> > To: ope...@go...
> > Cc: linux-iscsi development team; lin...@vg...
> > Subject: Re: 5.x branch mainline kernel push in two weeks?
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:29:11AM -0700, Mike Christie wrote:
> > > Are you going to try and push someone like qla4010 which has a
> similar
> > 
> > > interface to qla2xxx (it uses the msg box interface) to use the
> > netlink 
> > > interface? With a lot of the iscsi stuff masked away it seems a
> little
> > 
> > > difficult to go the extent open-iscsi did?
> > 
> > I'm not sure we should care too much about the qla4xxx driver.  It's
> > never been posted to linux-scsi, and the driver they pushed to SuSE
> > ignores everything we've said about scsi low-level drivers.  It looks
> > like the iSCSI part of Qlogic simply doesn't care about Linux (that is
> > upstream, not the major forks)
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