From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export MDRAID bitmap on disk structure in UAPI header file
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 07:25:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z3v17kZYZnvYPpsl@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241231030929.246059-1-tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 31, 2024 at 04:09:27AM +0100, Tomas Mudrunka wrote:
> When working on software that manages MD RAID disks from
> userspace. Currently provided headers only contain MD superblock.
> That is not enough to fully populate MD RAID metadata.
> Therefore this patch adds bitmap superblock as well.
the bitmap format is not a userspace ABI, it is an on-disk format.
As such it does not belong into the uapi. It might make sense to
create a clean standalone header just for the on-disk format that
you could copy, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-06 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-31 3:09 [PATCH] Export MDRAID bitmap on disk structure in UAPI header file Tomas Mudrunka
2024-12-31 3:47 ` Yu Kuai
2024-12-31 8:59 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2024-12-31 11:02 ` Tomáš Mudruňka
[not found] ` <CAH2-hc+QK0SZgDjOScegsDk8R8gQEZgJ5Vg1M1J_v-yDEym=Dw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20241231123108.215cc05e@mtkaczyk-private-dev>
2024-12-31 14:23 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2025-01-02 1:43 ` Yu Kuai
2025-01-02 11:48 ` Tomas Mudrunka
2025-01-03 1:14 ` Yu Kuai
2025-01-03 9:38 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2025-01-03 11:54 ` Tomas Mudrunka
2025-01-07 8:36 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2025-01-07 22:58 ` Song Liu
2025-01-15 15:23 ` Tomáš Mudruňka
2025-01-06 15:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-01-06 15:40 ` Tomáš Mudruňka
2025-01-06 15:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-02-03 11:43 ` Mariusz Tkaczyk
2025-02-03 17:18 ` [PATCH v2] " Tomas Mudrunka
2025-02-06 22:30 ` [PATCH v3] " Tomas Mudrunka
2025-02-18 2:32 ` Yu Kuai
2025-02-18 11:38 ` [PATCH v4] " Tomas Mudrunka
2025-02-19 6:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
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