On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 04:39 -0800, Jan Zelený wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to ask you about state of FCoE target code. I just tried to install > the target on kernel 2.6.31.4 and there are some errors during compilation of > open-fcoe-target. After a brief investigation I found that kernel >= 2.6.24 > uses slightly different netdev functions than previous versions did and thus > the code of open-fcoe-target doesn't compile. > > Do you guys have some plans for target code. I've read in wiki, that it is > not > your priority at the moment, so I'd like to know some details on this matter. > Perhaps I can help you with it? > Hi Jan,
You need a little background first. There are two competing SCSI target infrastructure projects- SCST and STGT. STGT is upstream and SCST is not. I'm not familiar enough with the SCST project to know exactly where they are now in their upstream push, or what their plans are. I think that hooking up libfc/fcoe to STGT may not be too difficult, but I haven't looked into it much, and at this time I think this is what needs to be done to have an upstream and maintainable target. As a reference, I believe that there is only one FC initiator hooked into STGT right now. Alternatively, Intel is in the process of refreshing the SCST based target to a more current kernel. The intent is not to push it upstream. We hope to publish this code in roughly 4-6 weeks. I'm not sure if the code will be published here or on sourceforge. I hope this helps, //Rob _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
