Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] target: Move passthrough CDB parsing into a common function

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Hi Christoph,

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 06:09PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 04:20:05PM +0300, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
> > I don't understand why this is needed. First of all, I would suggest
> > rephrasing the comment since it seems to have a few problems (it took me
> > a while to understand it). Also, since this is a pass-through SCSI
> > implementation, you shouldn't have to examine the CDB or modify it in
> > any way. What do you think?
> 
> This is because SCSI-2 sets the lun in the second cdb byte.  On the
> other hand I don't think exporting anything as SCSI-2 from the Linux
> target makes sense, so maybe we can drop it these days?

Thanks for the explanation. I do believe that this needs to go, since a
pass-through SCSI implementation should not modify the CDB, but as I said
to Andy let's fix this in the next merge window.

Cheers,
Ilias

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