[Stgt-devel] [PATCH] add stgt_device_template example

[FUJITA Tomonori]

From: Mike Christie <michaelc at cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Stgt-devel] [PATCH] add stgt_device_template example
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:32:05 -0500

> > I'll try to see how to integrate target driver daemons to stgtd. For
> > that, ietd daemon needs to do all kernel-user space communication
> > through stgt netlink. Thus, we need to add some iSCSI specific
> > callbacks (like conn_create/destroy). Is it OK? Or is implementing
> 
> I do not think we want to do that since we would have stgt_core doing 
> lower level transport stuff and as we add many the callouts for them 
> could get out of hand.
> 
> > more generic message and callback(like STGT_UEVENT_SEND_MESSAGE) for
> > target driver specific tasks better?
> 
> Yeah, maybe a generic event like that. Where if stgt doe not know how to 
> handle the event it passes it to the protocol or target driver or 
> transport. Or maybe it can flow downwards. For what we have now:
> 
> STGT_UEVENT_SEND_MESSAGE->stgt (if not mine pass down) ->protocol (pass 
> down if not mine) ->target_driver (fail if not my message)

Mike, can you tell me the details of your design (or commit the
initial code)? I don't get a clear idea of how this part should be
implemented yet.