Re: [PATCH] scsi: target/sbp: remove firewire SBP target driver

On 1/4/21 2:50 PM, Finn Thain wrote:

On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, Bart Van Assche wrote:

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Additionally, there is a good alternative available for the sbp driver. 
Every system I know of that is equipped with a Firewire port also has an 
Ethernet port. So users who want to provide SCSI target functionality on 
such systems can use any SCSI transport protocol that is compatible with 
Ethernet (iSCSI, iSER over soft-RoCE, SRP over soft-RoCE, ...).

Ethernet is not always an alternative. That was already discussed in this 
thread. But let's assume for a moment that you can migrate any and all 
users of this driver over to an ethernet driver.

Why would the maintainers of that Ethernet driver and its API accept that 
plan, if adding users would extend their maintenance and testing 
obligations? Do you think those maintainers should pay the "kind of tax 
that all developers/users pay to all developers/users?"

Hi Finn,

I cannot speak in the name of the iSCSI over TCP/IP or iSER driver
maintainers. But since I maintain the SRP initiator and target kernel
drivers myself, I can state that I would be happy to help SBP target users
(if that driver has any users today) to switch from SCSI over Firewire to
SCSI over SRP over RoCE or even NVMEoF over TCP.

Thanks,

Bart.