From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: Why using configfs as the only interface is wrong for a storage target Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:53:01 -0800 Message-ID: <20110207225300.GD13518@noexit> References: <20110207115347.GA7503@noexit> <1297089709.3012.19.camel@mulgrave.site> <20110207160223.598210a2@harpe.intellique.com> <1297109379.13752.250.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <20110207223845.71d2ab18@galadriel2.home> <20110207224407.GC13518@noexit> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:51496 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755115Ab1BGWxI (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:53:08 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110207224407.GC13518@noexit> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Emmanuel Florac , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , James Bottomley , Bart Van Assche On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 02:44:09PM -0800, Joel Becker wrote: > It's great that Nick has fancy tools to fly around the target > configfs space, but that's all fluff for people writing and debugging I'm glad that Nick is excited about what configfs provides him as a developer examining the system, but I think he goes overboard extolling these virtues. This distracts from the core discussion of configfs as a method of communicating the configuration to kernelspace. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #207 "Swing for the fence." http://www.jlbec.org/ jlbec@evilplan.org