On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 09:45 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:41:35AM -0700, Andy Grover wrote: > > Proper handling of lpfc target mode is a good reason to prioritize getting > > it in the upstream kernel. Sebastian Herbszt posted a patch for this on > > April 12, should we be making more of an effort to review that for > > inclusion? > > The patch from Sebastian does not actually seem to be a complete target > driver. It introduces all kinds of hooks in the lpfc driver, but no > actual target driver logic. The old Emulex was not ready to embrace upstream target mode beyond their SDK, and given their recent acquisition I don't expect this to change anytime soon. It's going to take someone like Sebastian who actually cares to make it happen, and work through the expected push back from Emulex LLD folks. --nab -- 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
