On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Arne Redlich <agr at powerkom-dd.de> wrote: > Am Montag, den 18.08.2008, 16:11 +1000 schrieb ronnie sahlberg: >> >> This patch adds support for passthrough devices to tgtd. >> Please review/apply. > > Hi Ronnie, > > there used to be a passthrough handler - it was removed due to its > "brokeness" (anything else besides the TMF and I_T nexus mapping > issues?), but the commit message suggests that it [cs]hould serve as a > starting point? > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tomo/tgt.git;a=commitdiff;h=59e4aee0796783b765e9cc5748b8f4c7efe934eb > Hi, Could you explain why both the old pass-through handler and the new proposed one implement a separate device type (in addition to a new backing store)? Why having just a separate backing store is not enough? We don't really introduce a new scsi device type here, do we? It is about the way the scsi commands are delivered to the storage, so just having a new backing store would suffice. Do i miss something? Alexander Nezhinsky -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html |