linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] target updates for v3.16-rc1

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Message-ID: <1402672861.2224.11.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Jun 2014 08:21:01 -0700
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	target-devel <target-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@...gic.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] target updates for v3.16-rc1

On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 15:39 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 02:05:16PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > The first is with virtio-scsi between what has been merged in scsi.git
> > for "virtio_scsi: use cmd_size", and the "virtio-scsi: Enable DIF/DIX
> > modes in SCSI host LLD" below.  (Adding Paolo + hch CC')
> 
> Just curious, why did we decide to take the virtio-scsi patches
> through the target tree?  Seems like taking them through the scsi
> tree would have been a lot simpler.

We've been ineffectively trying to split them between target and
initiator, since it's effectively both.  Now that we seem to have a
workable process, why don't we just take everything (target scsi-queue
and vhost) through the SCSI tree, that way we don't get into these
problems in future.

James


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