From: boutcher@xxxxxxxxxx (Dave C Boutcher) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 35/35] Add Xen virtual block device driver. Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:19:56 -0600 > > Mike Christie wrote: > > Does the IBM vscsi code/SPEC follow the SRP SPEC or is it slightly > > modified? We also have a SRP initiator in kernel now too. It is just not > > in the drivers/scsi dir. > > The goal was to follow the SRP spec 100%. We added one other optional > command set (different protocol identifier than SRP) to exchange some > information like "who is at the other end", but the intent was that > the SRP part was right from the spec. > > I think, since we implemented this in three operating systems (Linux, > AIX, and OS/400) using the T10 spec as the reference that we are probably > pretty close. About the target side, the lun structure is very different the spec (tgt implements this as a user-space library). > And yeah, I'm aware that there is another SRP implementation in the > kernel...Merging would be good... Do you have any plans for this? I've been thinking about writing something like scsi_transport_srp, which can help the initiator and target drivers. I like to enable tgt to support RDMA-capable adapters. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
