iscsitarget shipped with Ubuntu's linux-image

[Stefan Bader]

Ben Collins wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 09:41 +0100, Arne Redlich wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I'm the upstream maintainer of the iSCSI Enterprise Target (IET) [1],
>> which is shipped as "iscsitarget" in Ubuntu. Recently we've been getting
>> some bug reports related to the Ubuntu flavour on our mailing list [2].
> 
> Thanks for checking into this. Cc'ing the kernel team mailing list so
> that the stable maintainer can look into adding this to past releases.
> 

Hi Ben,

in Hardy LUM I found this change to be present already. It was part of some 
updates, which Chuck did.
commit 1fc338f1398043b74c0e35847db6323e36654651
Author: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 9 13:26:21 2008 -0400

     UBUNTU: Update iscsitarget drive
     OriginalAuthor: Chuck Short <chuck.short at canonical.com>
     Bug: #208281

     Signed-off-by: Chuck Short <chuck.short at canonical.com>
     Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>

Some changes seem not to have gone upstream at this time. I am attaching the 
diff between intrepid and hardy. Some changes are rather cosmetical but others 
might be important.

Stefan

>> After some research I discovered that there's already a bug report in
>> launchpad [3]. However, digging a little deeper I found out that the bug
>> is not present in the referenced package but that the kernel part of
>> iscsitarget is also shipped with the linux-image-2.6.x package,
>> containing at least the mentioned bug in the procfs code (it doesn't
>> take care of the net namespaces, probably overlooked when attempting to
>> port IET to kernels >= 2.6.24). Below is a patch for that.
>>
>> I also noticed that the sources you're using are a rather old version
>> and is not from one of our releases or our repository [4] but from some
>> third party [5].
>>
>> I'm interested in avoiding such problems in the future, not only because
>> of my upstream work for IET but also as a Ubuntu user. As a starting
>> point I'd of course like to encourage you to include a more recent
>> release / version from our repository in jaunty. In case of any problems
>> (e.g. the code needs to be ported to the latest kernel version) I'd like
>> our projects to work more closely together so we can avoid such
>> breakage. Please feel free to contact me or the project's mailing list
>> (currently subscribers only) for any IET related issues.
>>
>> Thanks in advance & best regards,
>> Arne Redlich
>>
>> [1] http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net
>> [2] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.iscsi.iscsi-target.devel
>> [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iscsitarget/+bug/278625
>> [4] svn://svn.berlios.de/iscsitarget/
>> [5] http://www.amherst.edu/~swplotner/iscsitarget/download/iscsitarget/
>>

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