Re: Wish list for kernel 2.3

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Wed, 19 May 1999 12:50:10 +0200


Hi!

> > Network: SCSI over IP
>
> I'd like to see this too.
>
> > I would help coding all this, but someone must say me what to do how. I
> > have good C and ASM knowledge, but nearly no knowledge in kernel
> > programming. Sorry to say, but the documentation isn't the best.
>
> Ok, you asked for it:
>
> I _think_ it should be possible to do entirely in userspace by using
> code similar to scarabd (ftp://pc110.ro.nu/pub/scarab/) and
> scsi-generic layer
> (/usr/src/linux/Documentation/scsi-generic.txt). Performance of this
> hack will not be the best under the sun, but it should work well
> enough to be usefull. Once it works, port into kernelspace should not
> be too hard.

I was told things are not as easy as I painted them: you'll need to
hack scsi driver to work in other mode - ie. not send commands but
receive commands as well. This is probably not yet supported by
scsi-generic.
Pavel

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