From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: RFC: SCSI Generic version 4 interface Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 16:31:48 +0100 > On Tue, Nov 07 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Douglas Gilbert wrote: > > >I was asked to put together a proposal in May this > > >year for a new SCSI Generic interface structure. This > > >is the same structure that is used by the block layer > > >SG_IO ioctl. A few people have asked whether I had forgotten > > >that I agreed to write the proposal. So here it is. Those > > >who have seen it have made comments, some of which have > > >been incorporated. > > > > > >Some shortcomings of the sg version 3 interface are: > > > - can't handle commands with bidirectional data (either > > > can the SCSI subsystem at the moment) > > > - if it was a bit more general it could carry other > > > request/response protocols (e.g. Task Management > > > Functions and SMP in Serial Attached SCSI) > > > - no way of associating a task attribute or task tag > > > with a SCSI command > > > > Why avoid Jens Axboe's bsg? > > > > It seems like that is already a good interface for carrying other > > req/resp protocols. > > I don't think Doug is avoiding that (if you are Doug, please do explain > :-), but rather outlining the next generation command format that bsg > should support for future use. sg4 can be implemented on bsg nicely, I think. But why does the current bsg support sg3 partially? Do you plan to add the rest of sg3 (which doesn't work nicely) to bsg? - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
