Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754236Ab0HRQT1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:19:27 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:39687 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750902Ab0HRQT0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:19:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ktA12aNCjwpLfFj1H8AKzfaVGHLtTHNHXAi6yZ1PV6Y9m6xx5R0Sbfr0gqSt1DzmJn /FIlzjMgk3ZXkxt/+oFQBJi50Z66QdkBz5gfvx9WwHl/Dl9KPYg0uWNC0sGC+kQdVNRV jisoJMuYuCdeMoQEX3ugInmWUgcKFSRMdlEio= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1282144271.3035.31.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <594039.74663.qm@web111905.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1282144271.3035.31.camel@mulgrave.site> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:19:24 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: V0TGCm8K_BZEO3-nIWkV-m5UoDQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: linuxcon 2010... From: Bart Van Assche To: James Bottomley Cc: Chetan Loke , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , scst-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2499 Lines: 65 On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:11 PM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 07:58 -0700, Chetan Loke wrote: >> Hello James and others, >> >> --- On Tue, 8/17/10, James Bottomley wrote: >> >> > From: James Bottomley >> > Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: ?linuxcon 2010... >> > To: "Vladislav Bolkhovitin" >> > Cc: "scst-devel" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org >> > Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 8:30 PM >> > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 20:20 +0400, >> > Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: >> > > Hello James, >> > > >> > > Could you comment rumors that decision about future >> > Linux SCSI target >> > > subsystem is done as well as other related rumors: >> > >> > If this is related to LSF, the notes on the I/O track are >> > here: >> > >> > http://lwn.net/Articles/400491/ >> >> >> During the open panel, my question was really specific - >> >> Q) What is the future of a SCSI-target subsystem in linux. Which >> ? ?target engine/subsystem can we expect? >> >> Your answer) There is place for only 1 target-subsystem in the Linux >> scsi stack and in the LSF summit the decision was taken to merge LIO. >> Has that >> decision changed since the summit? > > The decision hasn't been taken to merge LIO, but based on what happened > at the summit, I think it's the most viable candidate and will likely be > merged by 2.6.37 > >> As a scst-user what I would like to understand is, what was that >> decision based on? Because the LSF summit was 'small by invitation' >> only summit. The notes don't give us an insight on the selection >> criteria/merits etc. > > The notes list 3, what's unclear about it? Hello James, Thanks for taking notes during the storage track and sharing these notes (http://lwn.net/Articles/400589/). These notes are interesting but do not reveal why LIO is preferred. Also, the list with the three acceptance criteria is incomplete. A very important criterion before any kernel code can be merged upstream is whether or not there is a maintainer for that code. Someone who has proven prior kernel coding experience and someone who understands the new code thoroughly. Bart. -- 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/