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

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Jun 13 2014 - 11:21:15 EST


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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