drivers/target/loopback

LIO SCSI Target Loopback Fabric Module

A virtual in-kernel SCSI fabric that lets the LIO target stack expose storage back to the same machine as if it were arriving over a SAN. It is used for testing the SCSI target subsystem and for local consumers that want to talk to LIO-exported volumes without a real transport like iSCSI or Fibre Channel.

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recommendation

This is not a hardware driver; it is a software loopback fabric inside the LIO SCSI target framework. It exists purely to plumb SCSI commands between the kernel's target core and local initiators, so the usual hardware-relevance questions about vendors, silicon, and end-of-life do not apply.

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codex reasoning notes (technical)

Not a driver directory: contains the LIO target loopback fabric module for virtual in-kernel SCSI testing/loopback, not hardware-bound device driver code.