Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756050Ab1E2SuE (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2011 14:50:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41334 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754582Ab1E2SuC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2011 14:50:02 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1306551592.23461.506.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> References: <1306551592.23461.506.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 11:49:08 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] iscsi-target: Merge for .40-rc1 To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Mike Christie , Andy Grover , James Bottomley , linux-scsi , LKML 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: 2957 Lines: 63 Gaah. I don't feel confident or motivated enough about iscsi-target, so after some (little) thought I ended up not pulling this. I really need a lot of acks from people who actually work on and care about SCSI, and right now I feel like with me being away for the next week, I can't handle it. I just don't want to be in the situation where I pull something that is apparently contentious in the SCSI space in general, but that's _particularly_ true this release. So I'm afraid that this essentially got pushed out to the next release. Linus On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Hi Linus, > > This is a GIT PULL request for the initial merge of the iscsi-target > fabric driver for mainline target core v4.0 infrastructure. > > ?git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/scsi-post-merge-2.6.git for-40-iscsi-target > > This series has been made against the following linux-2.6.git HEAD: > > commit dc7acbb2518f250050179c8581a972df3b6a24f1 > Merge: f01e1af 4bf0ff2 > Author: Linus Torvalds > Date: ? Thu May 26 19:01:15 2011 -0700 > > ? ?Merge branch 'upstream/tidy-xen-mmu-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen > > This code has undergone a number of review cycles on linux-scsi over the > last six months by Christoph, Mike and other interested folks. ?This has > included a number of cleanups to follow mainline conventions, and > conversion to use mainline include/scsi/iscsi_proto.h RFC definitions. > There has been an good amount of testing feedback on this code so far, > and with the LIO communities help we have been able to resolve the > reported cleanup/conversion regressions, and fix one long-standing > shutdown bug. > > Unfortuately James and I have been unable to come to an aggreement on > implementation details wrt to proper kernel/user split ahead of his > final SCSI pull for .40. ?I have no interest to take the mainline > iscsi-target development effort in this direction again, so I am > offically committing to you to support iscsi-target in good-faith > together with rtslib community edition moving forward. ?I am also > committing to extending iscsi-target to address the non-standard > authentication pieces that James has mentioned, but by the time .40 > ships we are still not going to have iSCSI clients that actually support > them. > > I believe that Christoph is happy with the current iscsi-target code for > an initial merge now, and am asking for the merge to avoid slipping > (again) for this type of 'mass-market' code that has a large audience, > and poses minimal risk considering the small amount of external changes. > [...] -- 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/