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Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 11:41:41 +0200
From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "FUJITA Tomonori" <tomof@acm.org>
Subject: Re: SCSI target subsystem
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On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net> wrote:
> I wrote all above to support my at first glance shocking conclusion that
> SCSI target subsystem is completely new subsystem of the kernel and it
> should live on its own with its own maintainer! This is the same as with the
> current interaction between SCSI and block subsystems in the kernel: SCSI
> uses block's functionality, but that doesn't mean that block and SCSI are
> the same subsystem.

Hello Tomo,

Due to the IET and STGT projects you have a lot of experience with
implementing SCSI target frameworks. What is your opinion about how a
kernel space SCSI target framework should fit in the Linux kernel ?

Bart.