Re: tcm IBMVSCSIS driver

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On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 07:20 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:46:56 -0700
> "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 21:56 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:05:43 -0700
> > > "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > One final question in that regard is in your ibmvscsis_queuecommand()
> > > > code, only INQUIRY, REPORT_LUNS, and MODE_SENSE need to be handled
> > > > specially for other non Linux VIO SRP Initiator guests on the other
> > > > end..
> > > 
> > > INQUIRY and REPORT_LUNS need the special responses. Otherwise the
> > > initiators can't see the logical units.
> > > 
> > 
> > There also appears to be a bunch of magic bits set for MODE_SENSE as
> > well and seems to indicate a hard requirement for legacy non linux
> > guests, yes..?
> 
> No, see ibmvio.c in tgt's user space code.
> 

<nod>

> 
> > Also wrt to the internal REPORT_LUNs emuation, is it just the LUN
> > encoding that is specific to ibmvscsis..?  I am wondering if can just
> > add a operation TCM fabric module TFO op for individual struct
> > se_lun->unmapped_lun -> REPORT_LUN payload encode, and drop this
> > internal emulation code.
> 
> Yeah.

Thanks for the clarification here..  I will look at getting this coded
up for TCM core + existing fabric module code and added as a special
case for TCM/ibmvscsis.

Thanks Tomo-san!

--nab


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