On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 07:58 -0700, Chetan Loke wrote: > Hello James and others, > > --- On Tue, 8/17/10, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Fwd: Re: linuxcon 2010... > > To: "Vladislav Bolkhovitin" <vst@xxxxxxxx> > > Cc: "scst-devel" <scst-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 8:30 PM > > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 20:20 +0400, > > Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > > Hello James, > > > > > > Could you comment rumors that decision about future > > Linux SCSI target > > > subsystem is done as well as other related rumors: > > > > If this is related to LSF, the notes on the I/O track are > > here: > > > > http://lwn.net/Articles/400491/ > > > During the open panel, my question was really specific - > > Q) What is the future of a SCSI-target subsystem in linux. Which > target engine/subsystem can we expect? > > Your answer) There is place for only 1 target-subsystem in the Linux > scsi stack and in the LSF summit the decision was taken to merge LIO. > Has that > decision changed since the summit? The decision hasn't been taken to merge LIO, but based on what happened at the summit, I think it's the most viable candidate and will likely be merged by 2.6.37 > As a scst-user what I would like to understand is, what was that > decision based on? Because the LSF summit was 'small by invitation' > only summit. The notes don't give us an insight on the selection > criteria/merits etc. The notes list 3, what's unclear about it? > > > > > > 3. I have heard you said "Vlad wasn't comfortable in > > handing up the > > > control to the maintainers ... (this is how kernel.org > > works)." I have > > > no idea what you meant. I have never been asked about > > anything like > > > that, so I couldn't say anyhow that I'm not > > comfortable with anything. > > > Could you clarify that? > > > > > 3) above is something that I emailed Vlad and the scst community based > on our offline conversation after the open panel. If SCST really has > licensing issues then I will personally stop using SCST. Since Vlad > hasn't > expressed any concerns on the above and neither have you commented on > it, is it safe to assume that the licensing requirement is a > non-issue? No. James -- 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
