--- Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about:
>
> union scsi_lun {
> __u8 lun[8];
> __be64 lun64;
> __be16 lun16;
> };
I'd rather not even hint that a LUN is to be viewed
as anything integer-like. Just use u8[8] aligned.
(I.e. it is u64 only at the time when printing it,
but no one really needs to know this. It is u8[8].
Not sure why this is hard to understand.)
> There are two things to consider:
> - Is ->target representing a Target Device? Then it could have more
> than one port, each one with a different identifier. Or is it
> representing a Target Port? Or is it representing a Target Device
> with the twist that we instantiate as many ->target objects as the
> device is showing ports to us?
Target port. SCSI Core has no business in multi-pathing. MP is another
layer on top of SCSI.
> - If the identifier is stored in ->target, and is an object known to
> mid-layer, then we need a datatype for ->target->tpid which is
> flexible enough for all flavors of TPID.
This isn't object oriented. See below.
> So, if tpid ends up in objects seen by mid-layer, the datatype of ->tpid
> could be either
>
> __u8 target_port_identifier[233]; /* enough for all */
>
> or
> __u8 target_port_identifier[0]; /* variable length */
>
> or
> struct scsi_target_port_identifier {
> enum transport_protocol {
> SCSI_TRANSPORT_UNKNOWN = 0,
> SCSI_TRANSPORT_SPI,
> SCSI_TRANSPORT_FCP,
> SCSI_TRANSPORT_SRP,
> SCSI_TRANSPORT_ISCSI,
> SCSI_TRANSPORT_SBP,
> SCSI_TRANSPORT_SAS,
> } format;
> union {
> unsigned spi_tpid:4;
>
> __u8 fcp_tpid[3]; /* or __be32 fcp_tpid:24; ? */
>
> struct {
> __be64 eui64;
> __be64 extension;
> } srp_tpid;
>
> struct {
> __u8 name[224];
> __32 tpgt;
> } iscsi_tpid;
>
> struct {
> __be64 eui64;
> __be32 directory_id:24;
> /* SAM calls this mistakenly "Discovery ID" */
> } sbp_tpid;
>
> __be64 sas_tpid;
Is it possible to stop with the u64 and its derivatives?
__u8 sas_tpid[8] __aligned(8) would do just fine.
> } value;
> };
>
> or something else.
Neither. Inevitably a SCSI Core representation of a target
port would contain a transport's layer opaque token (void* for
example). That opaque token uniquely identifes a target's
representation in the transport layer (target port), whose
structure stores the tpid in protocol dependent form.
SCSI Core gives you /dev/sdXYZ, that's all. It needs to get
out of knowing particulars of protocols. This is the object
oriented approach.
> The former two require that print functions reside in transport layer
> implementations. Note, the transport layer can easily make these print
> functions available to mid-layer so that mid-layer can print TPIDs too,
> without knowing what's in a TPID. I.e. transport layer hands out string
> representations of TPIDs to mid-layer.
Something like that.
Imagine you could say in SCSI Core:
transport->printf("I see a problem with %T:%016llx\n", sdev->target-><name of
opaque token>,
dev->LUN);
Where %T will be "filled" with the tpid after the opaque token has been
resolved by the transport protocol layer.
> The third variant allows to put the print function into mid-layer.
Sorry, no.
> Before you call it a heresy: SAM says how many bits or bytes are in the
No, it does NOT. The transport protocol does. SAM merely reproduces
this information, in an _Annex_, for informational purposes to the
reader. I.e. so that you don't have to hunt out the transport protocol
spec and search for it there yourself.
> identifiers, hence a generic SAM implementation can know how to print
> them. It only doesn't know how the values get in there.
Hmm, this is a weak argument: "... know how to print... doesn't know
how the values get in there."
Ask yourself these questions: "What does SCSI Core provide?", "What should
SCSI Core provide?", "What should SCSI Core not provide?", "Why?".
Give good justifications to your answers.
Luben
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