From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target drivers Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 01:21:53 -0800 Message-ID: <20150119092153.GA8666@infradead.org> References: <54B63F74.2040702@sandisk.com> <20150115090829.GA14154@infradead.org> <54B7E70C.8020304@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54B7E70C.8020304@sandisk.com> Sender: target-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Christoph Hellwig , "lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org" , target-devel , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 05:13:00PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > My goal is to realize this proposal without adding hooks for out-of-tree > code in the upstream kernel. What I had in mind is to raise the > abstraction level of the API between LIO core and target drivers a > little bit (e.g. by using accessor functions where necessary instead of > accessing structure members directly) That's very much a hook, althiugh a week one. Either way I don't think bringing up a very much political topic without even any code to discuss isn't a very valueable use of our time slots.