Oh yeah, all the patches were made over scsi-misc. Mike Christie wrote: > It looks like qla4xxx is getting close to being mergable. The following > patches complete the transport class related fixes I wanted qlogic to > do. Qlogic and Doug will resend the driver with Arjan and others > comments and lot of other bug fixes and cleanups. > > The following patches modify the transport class so qla4xxx can use it. > The patches also make any needed conversions to libiscsi and the other > iscsi LLD modules. > > The reason for the changes is because the qlogic HW can expose a > interface that is close to a normal SPI driver that hides most of the > iscsi details (session mode), or it can expose a interface that exposes > more of the iscsi details (connection mode). And we chose to go with > session mode. > > Even in session mode, we have hooked the qla4xxx driver into the > open-iscsi framework. Normally to do discovery and log into iscsi > sessions using iscsi_tcp you can do: > > iscsiadm --mode=discovery --type=sendtargets --portal=192.168.0.10:3260 > --login > > To see the running session you can do: > > iscsiadm --m session > > These same commands now work for qla4xxx and we also support qla4xxx > persistent targets. > > We have hooked qla4xxx into the userspace scanning and iscsi state model > code. So you can load the module, then run iscsid. iscsid will then scan > for disks and setup userspace. Or you can run iscsid and then load the > module. iscsid and the tools can be used with qla4xxx and iscsi_tcp and > iscsi_iser at the same time. > > In the future we plan to implement more functionality in the userspace > tools for qla4xxx like manually adding sessions and removing sessions, > and push more code to userspace, but the current code at least provides > a usable driver. > > Doug and Qlogic have finished the last qla4xx cleanups and will send > that driver soon > > - > : 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 - : 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
