On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:43:51 +0200 Stefan Bader <stefan.ba...@canonical.com> wrote:
> We currently carry iscsitarget as one of our ubuntu specific modules. > Due to the compile breaking for Oneiric, I was looking into this. I > found that, at least starting with Maverick, there is a source > package iscsitarget which also produces a dkms module. The code of > both is nearly identical, but have already diverged due to fixups > done to the kernel side while the dkms version just stayed at the > last upstream version. > > First question would be whether we really need iscsitarget at all as > there is an in kernel scsi target framework[1]. The answer may be > yes, because people (still) use it. > > But then it is not very efficient to provide the kernel module in the > kernel itself and a dkms package. I would tend to say it should be > removed from the kernel tree and only be provided by dkms as then all > the code from the iscsitarget project is in one package, the module > should not be important during installation as it only allows to use > the host as a target and when fixing the dkms build in the > iscsitarget package, the changes maybe flow back via debian to the > original project (though it looked a bit like there has been no > activity/changes since end of last year). > > What would be other peoples thoughts on this? > > -Stefan > > [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/424004/ Hi Stefan, I think we should drop iscsitarget since I believe tgt has been promoted to main in place of iscsitarget. Regards chuck -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
