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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Paul Clements <paul.clements@us.sios.com>
Cc: andrew morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nbd: nbd sysfs framework
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 22:22:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110804052239.GA12523@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAECXXi5pkRAY_dVSwSUrj5RQzsJ2YVx6xXovzpuRDOEOq92s9g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:17:04PM -0400, Paul Clements wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 07:15:51PM -0400, Paul Clements wrote:
> >> Description: The patch creates a new sysfs entry framework for nbd.
> >
> > Why?  What does this buy us except an increase in code size for no added
> > benifit?  You seem to be stripping out the driver layer here and using
> > "raw" kobjects, why?
> 
> Not sure what I was thinking...just in a hurry, I think.
> 
> Is the following a little better?

I don't know, I still fail to understand _why_ this patch is needed.

Why are you doing this?  What is the goal?  What is wrong with the
existing code that it doesn't work for you?

confused,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-04  5:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-03 23:15 [PATCH] nbd: nbd sysfs framework Paul Clements
2011-08-03 23:34 ` Greg KH
2011-08-04  2:17   ` Paul Clements
2011-08-04  5:22     ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-08-04 16:31       ` Paul Clements

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