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 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC6DC3A59E for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:32:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CCBC2332A for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:32:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1566379941; bh=0woE7KH9qH87RbaubAR04Ak4yDzR/nxmHFuwDbo3cf0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=sGW9KdWNpa0dz3OwA800LsaWZLV/Of0/KqMcp7x59RZwP2B3ikdBI82sQJLN2B2td Qn/9iZ1ONj9Z2oKHU8zwIQxz0ZlycEJlzXkcwKyLdsClqDOqxyZyi+cWvpTZFLQtvi mno6AC06omCGWc+LgGF7ZOZE1nkZVeqqQr7ghRsI= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726730AbfHUJcV (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2019 05:32:21 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37152 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726353AbfHUJcU (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2019 05:32:20 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [12.166.174.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B6A4A22D6D; Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:32:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1566379939; bh=0woE7KH9qH87RbaubAR04Ak4yDzR/nxmHFuwDbo3cf0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=oRGCb3cLAStHY4MBdHaRh1/sWNhi0ENJBPihYDW/gnRJHaFzeYRkI6gBkQq1bBtvc akSm0qTU3RNxqg92RqFdFB1gS62gN3X+wnBHmylRG6/iheS6DAA+R3CwyNJBfdsyST 6JaH2hK93VeJ3CDu6/KlNT/8eWf7cht+C7eJSEQs= Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 02:32:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: USB list , Alan Stern Subject: Re: f_mass_storage vs drivers/target Message-ID: <20190821093219.GA24207@kroah.com> References: <8b5d460e023284a803d5f448655d5c20de711f12.camel@kernel.crashing.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8b5d460e023284a803d5f448655d5c20de711f12.camel@kernel.crashing.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) Sender: linux-usb-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 01:38:49PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Hi folks ! > > It seems that f_mass_storage duplicates (well maybe predates too..) a > lot of what's in drivers/target. It predates it by a long time. > Anybody working on implementing a new version of f_mass_storage that > is layered upon drivers/target instead ? That would bring quite a lot > of additional functionality. Why is that needed? What functionality is missing that it will provide? Will it make the code simpler? > If not, I might look into it. Hey, we don't refuse patches, for cleaning stuff up, you know that :) thanks, greg k-h