Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758054AbXFOV33 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:29:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755570AbXFOV3F (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:29:05 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59855 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755415AbXFOV3D (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:29:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4673047F.30808@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:28:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller , Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com CC: dwmw2@infradead.org, axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver References: <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070615.141720.112626963.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 25 David Miller wrote: > From: Geert Uytterhoeven >> Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore. If you can access the firmware/hypervisor code, have that provide SCSI. Then the Linux driver piece is easy, obvious and flexible SCSI, and is not "fake." > If the SCSI guys were smart, there would be a totally generic helper > layer that allows anyone to hook into the SCSI layer as a virtual SCSI > disk provider in like 10 lines of code. :-) The SCSI target code gives you the capability to do that (the SCSI transport part, the virtual storage part is easy from there). Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/