Re: [Scst-devel] Emulex lpfc target for newer kernels?

[Vladislav B. <vs...@vl...>]

Ari Lemmke, on 01/28/2011 03:05 AM wrote:
> Ari Lemmke, on 01/27/2011 05:27 AM wrote:
>>
>> It seems Emulex lpfc target (lpfc_scst) available is quite old (~2 years).
>>
>> Has anyone hacked it up to date? So that it could work 2.6.32 .. 2.6.35
> kernels?
>> (Fedora 14 etc.)
> 
> Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
>>
>> See http://scst.sourceforge.net/target_emulex.html.
> 
> Yes, seen that ;-)
> 
> Target code is based on lpfc driver version 8.2.0.41.
> 
> Those patches mentioned are useful when you have kernel  2.6.23.nn, the
> source does not compile with newer kernels - pci and scsi etc. layers have
> changed.
> 
> Last night have been constructing lpfc-8.3.16_tm (later newer version).
> 
> lpfc-8.2.0.41_tm_10.0.0 compared to lpfc-8.3.16 has
>  - target mode
>  - auth
>  - security
>  - target api
>  - lpfc_scst
> 
> Even though lpfc-8.2.0.41_tm_10.0.0 is quite neatly implemented please
> add ifdefs also for around variables used by your ifdeffed code - so that
> code would compile neatly also when people are not using your fancy
> features (in this case target mode).

Patches are welcome.

> It could be easier just to buy qlogic cards...

This is what most people do..