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SubjectRe: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
David Miller wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>

>> 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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