Greetings all, This is the second round of request for comments for TCM/ConfigFS v3.2 from lio-core-2.6.git. Thanks to the folks who made comments, and I again invite people to take a look and make recommendations on how the code can be futher improved to use the best available upstream interfaces. Also, the standalone patches for TCM v3.2 are now available from: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/nab/target_core_mod-patches/ The first posting from 09112009 can be found here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125272088024636 The changelog since the posting on 09112009, which can be found here: *) Convert to struct mutex for struct sempahore initialized with init_MUTEX() (mentioned by Daniel Walker) *) Convert to struct completion for struct semaphore initialized with init_MUTEX_LOCKED() (mentioned by Daniel Walker) *) Convert to use Kbuild instead of Makefile for drivers/target/ (mentioned by Boaz Harrosh) *) Use include/asm-generic/div64.h for unsigned long long division on 32-bit architectures *) Use include/linux/math64.h for unsigned long long modulo on 32-bit architectures The lio-core-2.6.git tree can be found here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/nab/lio-core-2.6.git;a=summary More Information about Target_Core_Mod/ConfigFS, and PR and ALUA: http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Target_Core_Mod/ConfigFS http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Persistent_Reservations http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/ALUA The complete v3.x TCM CLI operations set can be found here: http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Lio-utils#v3.1_TCM_CLI_operations Instructions and examples for getting setup: http://www.linux-iscsi.org/builds/docs/LIO-3.0-Users_Reference_Manual.pdf http://www.linux-iscsi.org/index.php/Howto#Start_target_core_mod Constructive comments are welcome, Thank you! --nab [RFC PATCH 1/19] Target_Core_Mod Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA) support [RFC PATCH 2/19] Target_Core_Mod ConfigFS infrastructure [RFC PATCH 3/19] Target_Core_Mod device core infrastructure [RFC PATCH 4/19] Target_Core_Mod FILEIO <-> Linux/VFS subsystem [RFC PATCH 5/19] Target_Core_Mod HBA core infrastructure [RFC PATCH 6/19] Target_Core_Mod IBLOCK <-> Linux/Block subsystem plugin [RFC PATCH 7/19] Target_Core_Mod SCSI MIBs [RFC PATCH 8/19] Target_Core_Mod Subsystem and SE Object plugin infrastructure [RFC PATCH 9/19] Target_Core_Mod SPC-4 Persistent Reservations [RFC PATCH 10/19] Target_Core_Mod PSCSI <-> Linux/SCSI subsystem plugin [RFC PATCH 11/19] Target_Core_Mod RAMDISK_DR and RAMDISK_MCP subsystem plugin [RFC PATCH 12/19] Target_Core_Mod READ/WRITE command descriptor block generation code [RFC PATCH 13/19] Target_Core_Mod Storage Engine Object infrastructure [RFC PATCH 14/19] Target_Core_Mod Task Management infrastructure [RFC PATCH 15/19] Target_Core_Mod portal group endpoint infrastructure [RFC PATCH 16/19] Target_Core_Mod Generic Transport Core [RFC PATCH 17/19] Target_Core_Mod Unit Attention emulation support [RFC PATCH 18/19] Target_Core_Mod base and fabric_module includes [RFC PATCH 19/19] Target_Core_Mod Kbuild/Kconfig -- 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