Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Hi Sergej, > > On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 15:58 +0000, Sergej Roytman wrote: >> I am looking into a user space SCSI target. I notice that this is >> planned >> for the 3.15 release of the kernel, probably later this year. I also >> notice a thread on this mailing list (participants: Shaohua Li and Andy >> Grover) that discusses something that sounds very much like, and even >> includes a patch file. May I assume that this thread and the planned >> change are one and the same? If not, is there any way for me to get a >> prototype of the new code, so I can have my stuff ready by the time 3.15 >> comes out? >> >> Thanks in advance, and apologies for the newbie question! >> > > Shaohua's patchset to implement a TCM userspace backend driver > (target_core_user) is the code that we're planning to move forward with > for >= v3.15. > > Unfortunately, I've not had time to review the series, and still owe > Shaohua feedback on his original posting from November. I expect to be > (finally) getting to this code by mid February, and start making forward > progress for v3.15 shortly thereafter. Having looked at the patch, I have one big question: Why create a whole new method for setting up a userspace/kernelspace ring buffer, when vhost exists? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
