[ewg] ***SPAM*** Re: [Scst-devel] [ofa-general] OFED 1.3 RC2 release is available

[Vladislav Bolkhovitin]

Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Jan 16, 2008 5:22 PM, Tziporet Koren <tziporet at mellanox.co.il> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>OFED 1.3 RC2 release is available on
>>http://www.openfabrics.org/builds/ofed-1.3/release/OFED-1.3-rc2.tgz
>>
>>To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info
>>
>>Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/
>>The RC3 release is expected on January 30
> 
> 
> Apparently OFED 1.3 includes SRP target support ? Although I consider
> SRP target support as a very valuable contribution, it should not be
> included in the OFED distribution but in the SCST distribution. The
> reason is that the SRP target relies on SCST interfaces that can
> potentially change with each new SCST release. Consider e.g. the
> scsi_tgt.h header file, which defines  the interface between SCST core
> and SCST mid-level modules. The version of this file included with
> git://git.openfabrics.org/~vu/ofed_1_3.git (0.9.6-pre3) is
> incompatible with the latest scsi_tgt.h file from the SCST project
> (0.9.6-rc1). This may cause kernel crashes for OFED 1.3 SRP target
> users who combine OFED 1.3 with the latest SCST version.

Now it won't crash, it will refuse to run. I've recently added in SCST 
protection against attempts running mixed SCST and target driver versions.

BTW, there is a

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*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
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*!! BIG FAT WARNING ABOUT MIXED VERSIONS PROBLEM             !!*
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*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
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during SCST installation. Did you ignored it? Is it not BIG FAT enough?

> Sorry for this late notice.
> 
> Bart.
> 
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