From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI postmerge patches for 2.6.38 merge window Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:05:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4D320C32.3070604@garzik.org> References: <1295030453.18445.63.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , linux-kernel List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 01/15/2011 01:25 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:40 PM, James Bottomley > wrote: >> >> This is a set of three patches I've been carrying that had a >> dependencies on pieces of the block tree (which went in yesterday). >> It's been rebased to go cleanly on top of current git head (and elimnate >> some of the merge cruft of creating a postmerge tree). All of the >> patches have been in Linux-next for several weeks. >> >> The two sd/sr patches are just completion of the media events >> infrastructure which was in the block tree. The main chunk is the >> addition of the LIO in-kernel target infrastructure which is one of the >> two competing target infrastructures which have been out of tree for >> several years now. Thanks to quite a lot of effort (particularly from >> Christoph Hellwig) cleaning it up, I think it's ready for mainline >> inclusion. This piece is just the target infrastructure; we'll begin >> adding the in-kernel drivers and the migration hooks for STGT (our >> original user land target driver) over the next merge window. >> >> The patch is available here: >> >> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-post-merge-2.6.git >> >> The short changelog is: >> >> Nicholas Bellinger (1): >> target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6 >> [ ... ] > > As anyone can see in the source file drivers/target/target_core_mib.c > this patch adds a significant number of new files to procfs. I thought > that this was considered unacceptable since a long time ? Has anything > changed ? > > See also http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/target/target_core_mib.c. Nothing has changed WRT procfs, and you are correct. But it's in now. Submit a patch to fix this particular crapola! :) Jeff