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

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:28:31 -0400

David Miller wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email-masked]>

>> 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