On 07/23/2011 09:41 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > While I apperciate Mike's input here, I'll leave the final word to Andy > and Christoph who have been primarly driving iscsi-target v4.1 > development and are the guys who have their fingers deepest in the code. I appreciate that, but hch and I have been working on cleaning up the main datapath; I personally haven't needed to familiarize myself with the auth code at all so far. That said, I happen to think you are correct, and am in favor of accepting the code as is, with in-kernel auth. I wasn't 100% sure from reading Mike's response but it sounded like he was saying he'd be ok with in-kernel auth since it would make handling hw iscsi targets easier. (BTW I think the arguments about backwards compatibility with existing rtslib or pre-kernel-acceptance versions are not persuasive and a distraction from the real technical discussion. Linux has a very strong stable-user-api tenet, but we should commit to support stable APIs that are reviewed and accepted in the kernel, and not be limited by compatibility with prior out-of-kernel versions.) > But all that said, there is still one person who has the real final word > here, and he's made it clear how he feels about this type of kernel/user > split. Well that's great and all - I would just emphasize we're all going to be working on this code cooperatively for a long time to come. More time spent discussing technical issues to where we can all reach a grumbling consensus will ultimately bear more fruit than appeals to the Hierarchy. Regards -- Andy -- 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
