Resending to a bigger audience. Hello,
There has been a lot of talks in the past about incorporating uIP into the vanilla open-iscsi package (or so we called making uIP upstream) instead of just having it be distro specific. Our plan is to break this effort down into a few steps and I like to hear your opinion about it. uIP is coded as a multi-threaded binary while open-iscsi is still single threaded. Ideally and ultimately, we would want uIP and open-iscsi to run as a single binary in an multi-threaded environment. However, I think we should approach that goal one step at a time as follows: (a) Upstream as 2 separate binaries first so uIP can still run the same way (multi-threaded) while open-iscsi can still run the same way as a single threaded binary. (b) Convert uIP to run as a static library. Use a wrapper for uIP so it can still run as separate binaries. At this time, other vendors can participate in customizing uIP for their own needs. (c) Unified the two to run as a single binary. This would require a lot of integration between uIP and open-iscsi (ex: socket communication, common logging, stdout, etc.). We can foresee there will be many timing issues arise. This will be the final step toward unification. As indicated in (a) above, we would like to see if we can upstream the latest uIP that we have as-is which contains various fixes in addition to features like IPv6 NDP, Static/DHCPv6, logrotate, etc. Then we would proceed to update the code as we progress through the steps described above. This also means that the corresponding uip patches in the distros are also to be incorporated in the package by default. Please let us know if this approach is acceptable so we can move on with the integration. Thanks, Eddie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi?hl=en.