[RFC] The future of iscsitarget

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Thu May 19 16:26:30 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 16:43 +0200, Stefan Bader 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?

I'd be in favor of the DKMS package thus allowing us to drop it from the
Ubuntu kernel.  This has been our suggested policy for out of tree
drivers we've carried in the past.

Thanks,
Leann

> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/424004/






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