On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 16:37 -0800, Robert Love wrote:
> 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

You missed the third one :)... Nicolas Bellinger's "Target Core".

> 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

I agree with your statement above. If we want it to be upstream (faster)
and maintainable we need to hook libfc/fcoe to STGT.

(Robert,) Can you through some suggestions about how to go about it.

> 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
> 
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