linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] target: Add a user-passthrough backstore

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Message-ID: <54208E03.8030906@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:00:51 -0700
From:	Andy Grover <agrover@...hat.com>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
CC:	Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@...il.com>, target-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] target: Add a user-passthrough backstore

On 09/22/2014 01:58 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> So I'd still like to start for an initial merge with the two different
> modes mentioned earlier.  The pure-passthrough mode where everything is
> handled by user-space, and an I/O passthrough mode where only
> SCF_SCSI_DATA_CDB is passed along to userspace, but all other control
> CDBs are handled by existing in-kernel emulation.
>
> Andy, can you re-spin a series with these two approaches in mind..?

Will do. This is actually close to what the initial RFC version I posted 
did.

-- Andy


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