linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA.

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Message-ID: <4A9D49CE.6080600@panasas.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:20:30 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
CC:	Alok Kataria <alokkataria1@...il.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>, akataria@...are.com,
	Robert Love <robert.w.love@...el.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>,
	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>,
	Maxime Austruy <maustruy@...are.com>,
	Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI driver for VMware's virtual HBA.

On 09/01/2009 07:13 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> Umm, we do share code between SCSI drivers.  We have the ULDs (sg, sd,
> sr, etc), we have the midlayer, and we have the transport classes (spi,
> iscsi, fc, etc).
> 

This makes a tons of sense. a scsi_transport_paravirt can have lots of common
nubs. I bet administrators would love such common management facility.

Boaz
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