[LSF/MM TOPIC] Making sure soft SCSI Targets are Valid

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Hi,

This is my attend request to to co-present a paper with Lee Duncan.

regards
ronnie sahlberg

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm not sure if there is much interest in this, but I've recently
> realized that there is no good free software to validate iSCSI targets,
> not to mention FCOE targets, IB soft targets, etc. There's just no way
> to know if any change you make is "legal" short of learning to speak
> SCSI geek spec (or waiting to see what fails when you make a subtle change).
>
> So I have been working with the (user-space) libiscsi creator and
> maintainer, Ronnie Sahlberg, to enhance his test suite. But this only
> addresses iSCSI targets. Some of his tests have already shown problems
> like kernel panics when an incorrect bit is injected, showing the need
> for such testing.
>
> It occurs to me it would be most valuable if we had more generic SCSI
> tests, not even limited to soft targets, available to developers and
> manufacturers. How best to support such tests with our SCSI layer, and
> what tests are needed now and in the future may be a good topic for
> discussion.
> --
> Lee Duncan
> SUSE Labs
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