On 01/23/2012 05:21 PM, Tony Asleson wrote: > On 01/21/2012 08:57 AM, James Bottomley wrote: [ .. ] >> The second might be what would it take to get vendors interested in >> doing the array plugin glue. > > By providing: > * Permissive license (LGPL) > * Easy to use out of process plug-in support to allow proprietary > plug-ins (IPC is abstracted) > * Language agnostic plug-in support (initial support is C and python) > > We are hoping we can get hardware vendors interested in providing their > own plug-ins. If anyone has additional ideas, we would certainly like > to discuss them. > The various hardware vendors already have the means of managing their arrays, in most cases also providing a CLI. I would be hoping we could draft the API support such that we can use the existing tools, without the need of special plug-ins. Cheers, Hannes -- 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
