Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 05:10:14PM +0000, Chris Moore wrote: > > Before you get too far down that path, are you aware of the Emulex OCS SDK? The SDK is independent > > of the lpfc driver, and supports target and initiator on FC, FCoE, and iSCSI. > > > > The SDK in the past has been under a proprietary license and required signing up for the partner > > program to get the source, but we're in the process of making it more available and switching to an open > > source license. > > > > If the SDK has the functionality you want it might save you from having to re-invent the wheel. > > > > More information on the SDK is at http://www.emulex.com/products/onecore-storage-sdk/overview. > > An SDK always sounds like a big blob of horrible code, especially if you > want to support all the different protocols that for Emulex use > different drivers anyway. If Sebastians driver is more like a normal > Linux driver I would love to add it to the mainline tree. The code was originally written by Emulex in 2009 [1]. Nicholas tried to upstream it in 2010, but the archives don't show any feedback [2][3][4]. I ported the driver [5] to 4.0-rc6 and will send a RFC patch soon. [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=124707559927802 [2] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1007.2/01452.html [3] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1007.2/01451.html [4] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1007.2/01449.html [5] http://scst.sourceforge.net/lpfc_scst1123.tar.bz2 Sebastian -- 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
