Re: [Scst-devel] Qlogic's 16G FC/FCoE HBA support

[Sebastian H. <he...@gm...>]

Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> Steve Magnani, on 05/21/2014 05:40 AM wrote:
> > On 05/20/2014 05:42 PM, Duane Grigsby wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I’m announcing that the latest qla2x00t driver from Qlogic that supports 16G and FCoE
> >> can be obtained from git.qlogic.com/scst.git.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Duane
> >>
> > Thanks Duane, and QLogic.
> >
> > I have just finished a merge of this code into my software platform, which follows SCST
> > trunk.
> > If my analysis is correct, the QLogic tree's closest relatives are:
> >
> > * [SCST]https://svn.code.sf.net/p/scst/svn/branches/2.2.x@4731
> > * [mainline] linux-3.15-rc1
> >
> > I am very interested in how the two SCST code bases can be reunified. I think that's in
> > everyone's interest, since the code in QLogic's tree supports dual initiator/target
> > mode whereas the code currently in the SCST tree does not (I suspect due to FC login
> > issues).
> 
> Yes, thanks Duane and QLogic!
> 
> Current plans are:
> 
> 1. Make the QLogic git code be up to date with the SCST trunk's qla2x00t, so no recent 
> fixes and improvements were lost. Duane is working on it (thank you!)
> 
> 2. As soon as (1) is done, obsolete the SCST in-tree qla2x00t and make the QLogic's git 
> the main tree for this driver, so all our new fixes and improvements will go into it.
> 
> We still need to figure out the best way to communicate (probably, we would need an 
> intermediate git tree somewhere on sf.net or github), but that should not be a problem.
> 
> Vlad

Does it mean scst will switch to git?

Sebastian