RE: [PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support

2005-02-06 Thread James . Smart
. -- james s -Original Message- From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 9:18 AM To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: Smart, James Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support Please, forgive me my ignorance

Re: [PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support

2005-02-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:28:17PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the Emulex driver tracks things by target (actually FC remote port) rather than luns, having the ability to have driver data space in the lun didn't help much. Yes, the driver data space could be in the transport-specific

RE: [PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support

2005-02-05 Thread James . Smart
the idea behind this is fine, I just don't like the interface. Really a target device is nothing more than a container to SCSI. We already do the transport add/remove calls for targets, I don't see we need other calls duplicating this. So, I think the implementation would look a whole

Re: [PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support

2005-02-05 Thread Douglas Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the idea behind this is fine, I just don't like the interface. Really a target device is nothing more than a container to SCSI. We already do the transport add/remove calls for targets, I don't see we need other calls duplicating this. So, I think the implementation

Re: [PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support

2005-02-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 09:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch extends scsi_target support: - Allows for driver-specific data to be allocated along with the target structure and accessible via the starget-hostdata pointer. - Adds scsi target alloc/configure/destory callbacks

[PATCH 3/3] MidLayer updates - extending scsi_target support

2005-01-29 Thread James . Smart
Patch 3: This patch extends scsi_target support: - Allows for driver-specific data to be allocated along with the target structure and accessible via the starget-hostdata pointer. - Adds scsi target alloc/configure/destory callbacks to the scsi host template. - Rearranges the