Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

[Jeff Garzik]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> > Because no new fake SCSI drivers are accepted anymore.

If you can access the firmware/hypervisor code, have that provide SCSI. 
 Then the Linux driver piece is easy, obvious and flexible SCSI, and is 
not "fake."


> If the SCSI guys were smart, there would be a totally generic helper
> layer that allows anyone to hook into the SCSI layer as a virtual SCSI
> disk provider in like 10 lines of code. :-)

The SCSI target code gives you the capability to do that (the SCSI 
transport part, the virtual storage part is easy from there).

	Jeff


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