2011/12/20 Or Gerlitz <[email protected]>: > > horses, please, stay at home, or at least run a little bit slower, > just for you - from 2 minutes > ago - iser works well with 3.2.0-rc5 (its say -dirty b/c its a > development system and the kernel has some patches, but not iser ones) > and iscsi-initiator-utils of 6.2.0.872-21.el6, I will try tomorrow > with upstream iscsi-initiator-utils and see if there's a problem > there. >
O.K., sorry - I just wanted to know how this is developed. Even if the kernel code matches 100%, how do I know which is the matching tested user-space code for that? > > I don't use ofed at all, work only with upstream or distro code. > AFAIK, the upstream kernel is functional with iser at all times, > again, I will do the validation with the iscsi tools and if the > upstream iscsi tools aren't functional with the upstream iser code but > are functional with the upstream iscsi/tcp code, we will (the iscsi > maintainer and myself) fix that, and thanks for this possible heads > up. > Thanks for that info. In OFED I thought I would have everything needed and matching together. Due to the new kernel we have our own distribution extends, packet repo, build server,... So, for OFED we're the distribution. > > no way, OFA isn't iscsi factory, we can't support the iscsi kernel > modules except for iser, nor any of the iscsi user space tools - and > its a historic bug that someone with wrong ambitions added iscsi > modules/tools info the ofa stack. The OFA stack should be compatible > with the kernel/distro it is running on. As you can see in the > maintainers file, I act as the iser maintainer, and I do work closely > with the iscsi maintainer, maybe should work closer if indeed you > stepped on a problem with the upstream iscsi tools, as for the iscsi > tools provided with debian, I am not sure what was the problem, send > me tgz with the sources to my @mellanox address and I can try look on > that. > Perhaps, I really stepped on a rare case where this was broken. As I've already asked: How do I find the matching, tested open-iscsi and OFA user-space code for a mainline kernel? Sorry again, I didn't want provoke. I just want to understand and make things work. Sebastian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
