[Stgt-devel] stgt & IBM virtual SCSI Target Driver

[Ming Zhang]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 12:40 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp>
> > Subject: Re: [Stgt-devel] stgt & IBM virtual SCSI Target Driver
> > Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:49:06 +0900
> > 
> > 
> >>>target driver (queue cmnd alloc buffer) -> protocol (SCSI stuff) -> STGT
> >>>
> >>>So then the target driver can pass some protocol specifc values like cdb 
> >>>and lun (and lun decoder if necessary) without the stgt core having to 
> >>>worry about that stuff. This will also allow you to make it so target 
> >>>drivers do not have to touch things like the cdb field (I can move that 
> >>>to a protocol specific cmnd data finally).
> >>
> >>I agreed. Now we should remove all protocol specific stuff in stgt. I
> >>tried to do this (though I'm not sure whether I've done in a right way
> >>about some of the changes).
> > 
> > 
> > By the way, it's time to rename stgt tgt (or something generic), I
> > guess. 
> 
> yeah, what a pain :) I am fine with tgt. Maybe "blktgt" (that may be too 
> long) to show we are generic like the block layer. I am not so good at 
> naming things :)

i think tgt is fine here. blktgt is too long.

> 
> > 
> > I also think about rename IET something generic like istgt or isstgt
> > (iSCSI software target). After all, the code will be really very from
> > the original IET code. Any suggestions?

istgt is better. is(csi) + tgt

ming


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