need help to merge (small) virtual scsi driver upstream.

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:38:57AM +0100, Henrik Stokseth wrote:
> Hi! I'm one of the developers on the CDEmu project.
> 
> We want to get a driver merged into vanilla linux kernel. CDEmu is a
> software suite that allows people to take a CD/DVD-image and mount it on
> the system in the form of a virtual disc.

How is this different from a loop-back mounted device?  Shouldn't that
do the same thing?

> Major parts of this software is based on user-space components, but we
> have a kernel module that's responsible for acting like a SCSI HBA
> (Host Bus adapter). Mainly all this HBA does is to send requests to a
> userspace daemon for processing and then fetch the result and send it
> back to the SCSI subsystem.
> 
> The project's homepage is here: http://cdemu.sourceforge.net
> 
> I went over the code to make sure it follows the coding style that's
> used. Is there anything else I need to do? I'm an able programmer but
> kernel code is something that I seldom touch.

Have you read Documentation/SubmittingDrivers for how to do this?  Have
you tried submitting it to the scsi people for their approval already?

thanks,

greg k-h