[Stgt-devel] vsd -> vdev is bad

[Mike Christie]

Ming Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 13:27 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> 
>>Mike Christie wrote:
>>
>>>Ming Zhang wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Mike
>>>>
>>>>I think change vsd->vdev is a bad idea.
>>>
>>>
>>>I would agree it is a bad name, but all that device does today is the 
>>>reads and writes. It should probably be called something-something-IO. 
>>> From your experience with iet, do you think a read or write will be 
>>>different for tape or disk when using the interface we are using?
>>>
>>
>>Oh yeah, I had looked at scst's dev_handlers for an example. I think 
>>mostly only the error hanlding will be a problem.
> 
> 
> yes, that is quite different.
> 

So I guess we will need something. Originally the vsd and sd names came 
about becuase we were only doing SCSI and vsd was a virtual scsi disk 
and sd was a scsi disk passthrough type of device. They basically 
emulated SCSI's ULDs for tape, cd, disk but they also performed 
different types of IO, passthrough vs generic_file_readv/writev. 
Eventually we pushed the SCSI stuff to the protocol handlers and the 
devices became what they are today. Maybe io_handlers or io_type is a 
better name?

Then to suport scsi tape, cd, etc we can add that code to the scsi 
protocol and have something simialr to the SCSI-ml ULDs.