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

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Mon Sep 22 2014 - 17:03:15 EST


On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 14:00 -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
> 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.
>

Also, it would be nice to include the example user-space code that
proves the logic into the patch series, so it can be carried along with
kernel sources.

--nab

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