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    xen-scsifront: Add Xen PV SCSI frontend driver · 8beb8d4c
    Juergen Gross authored
    
    
    Introduces the Xen pvSCSI frontend. With pvSCSI it is possible for a
    Xen domU to issue SCSI commands to a SCSI LUN assigned to that
    domU. The SCSI commands are passed to the pvSCSI backend in a driver
    domain (usually Dom0) which is owner of the physical device. This
    allows e.g. to use SCSI tape drives in a Xen domU.
    
    The code is taken from the pvSCSI implementation in Xen done by
    Fujitsu based on Linux kernel 2.6.18.
    
    Changes from the original version are:
    - port to upstream kernel
    - put all code in just one source file
    - move module to appropriate location in kernel tree
    - adapt to Linux style guide
    - some minor code simplifications
    - replace constants with defines
    - remove not used defines
    - add support for larger SG lists by putting them in a granted page
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
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