Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] [ATTEND] qla2xxx FC target mode

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James & Co,

Ping..?  Any thoughts on this topic yet..?

Thanks,

--nab

On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 16:27 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Given the interest getting the Qlogic FC Target driver merged into
> mainline during the v3.4 -> v3.5 time frame, I would like to propose a
> LSF storage track discussion for some of the longer term items wrt
> qla2xxx target mode that are stretching across SCSI + target subsystems.
> 
> We would like to eventually support mixed SCSI initiator / target mode
> on a per HW port context basis.  Before that can happen in mainline some
> of the interaction between SCSI core and target core will need to be
> sorted out..
> 
> This includes:
> 
> - I -> T transition between active initiator mode LLD LUNs 
>   + active TCM ports in same LLD
> - T -> I transition + rescan of ports without having to restart SCSI LLD
> - mixed mode running on the same physical/virtual port
> - target core dependencies in SCSI core to make this work..?
> 
> More background is available in the RFC-v4 posting here:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/target-devel/msg01424.html
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --nab
> 
> 
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