Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target drivers

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:49:19AM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> What I proposed myself consists of three steps:
> 1. Updating the LIO SRP target driver to a more recent version.
> 2. Target driver and LIO core refactoring such that the LIO and
>    SCST APIs can be unified.
> 3. Adding support in SCST for the unified target driver API.
> 
> This work is taking a little more time than I had expected - I still
> have to start with step (3). But I can already show in which direction I
> would like to go for steps (1) and (2). The 43 patches I came up with so
> far for steps (1) and (2) are available in the lio branch of the
> https://github.com/bvanassche/linux git repository. As you can see in
> that repository 42 of these 43 patches make sense even without knowing
> that something like SCST exists.

The work in there looks really good and easily mergeable with a few
mostly cosmetic comments.

I still don't see the point of adding this to LSF, we have far more
important and wide ranging topics then cleaning up some target
internals.
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