On 01/19/15 10:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 05:13:00PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> My goal is to realize this proposal without adding hooks for out-of-tree >> code in the upstream kernel. What I had in mind is to raise the >> abstraction level of the API between LIO core and target drivers a >> little bit (e.g. by using accessor functions where necessary instead of >> accessing structure members directly) > > That's very much a hook, althiugh a week one. > > Either way I don't think bringing up a very much political topic > without even any code to discuss isn't a very valueable use of our time > slots. A possible approach is that I start implementing a unified SRP target driver and post that driver together with the necessary LIO and SCST core changes before the LSF/MM starts. That could be a helpful starting point for further discussions. Bart. -- 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