From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] tcm_loop updates Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:48:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20150619064855.GB1183@lst.de> References: <1434620622-65391-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:59550 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932078AbbFSGs5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jun 2015 02:48:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1434620622-65391-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Nic Bellinger , target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Ewan Milne What's the benefit of the SAS transport class writeout? I honestly always saw tcm_loop as a simple loopback driver, with the different transport IDs in the PR code as a gimmick. Note that vhost and xen-blkback copies that style and I did plan to consolidate it in common code.