From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23856C43334 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233076AbiF0Hqs (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:46:48 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53334 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233046AbiF0Hqr (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:46:47 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1828460E7 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:46:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1656316006; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=lnmX60g0utcggJk3p7fmNX8l7/5odnPbkfZis0RysRw=; b=b6Mg7EnIl0pS+8ZWD/76iBd90Z9Ldndqm4Xuu1eNo7UA9ysrTRCMEXoyjd4nY2IdYwo64z Z9lDCO0ZYcX938aD+F/1VTzqK2OVUKZSTWrpB9lC/S9eE0SJQ4U60k7Z6wYm4qubOv5nKh HeKU6A0Yd0aPTkKIs2ylGyEll1Vzdok= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-508-FXrzlzSNOMCy_ioyPSMt_A-1; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:46:44 -0400 X-MC-Unique: FXrzlzSNOMCy_ioyPSMt_A-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19A9C1C01B29; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:46:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from T590 (ovpn-8-31.pek2.redhat.com [10.72.8.31]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91D1641615A; Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:46:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 15:46:35 +0800 From: Ming Lei To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH ubdsrv] tgt_null: Return number of sectors read/written Message-ID: References: <20220621224839.76007-1-krisman@collabora.com> <87k0983bw1.fsf@collabora.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k0983bw1.fsf@collabora.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.85 on 10.11.54.10 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:23:42PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > Ming Lei 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