Re: [PATCH ubdsrv] tgt_null: Return number of sectors read/written

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:23:42PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 06:48:39PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> >> Hi Ming,
> >> 
> >> I wrote this against your devel-v3 branch.  I'm wondering if you plan to
> >> send a new version of the kernel patch soon? From the latest
> >
> > Yeah, that is on my todo list:
> >
> > https://github.com/ming1/linux/commits/my_for-5.19-ubd-devel_v3
> >
> > there has lots cleanup & improvement.
> >
> >> discussions, I don't think there were major issues found on review. :)
> >
> > One problem is the driver name, and Christoph thought we have
> > 'arch/um/drivers/ubd*.c'. Not thought of one good candidate yet.
> 
> Hi Ming,
> 
> Thanks for the info, and sorry for not noticing the fix merged on Jun, 3rd
> on the master branch.  I will follow that branch when testing and submit
> fixes I find along the way.

That is great!

> 
> I guess you have considered a lot of names, but I'd suggest any of:
> 
>  * blkuser,
>  * ublk
>  * BUSE (as in Block FUSE, though there is another non-upstream
> project with that name),
>  * UBIO (as in UIO, but for Block IO)
>  * B2U (Block IO Backed by userspace) :-P
> 
> TBH, my favorite is ublk.

Me too, will change to it in v3 if no one objects.

Thanks,
Ming