From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753868Ab1AOVGC (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:06:02 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:58890 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751180Ab1AOVGA (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:06:00 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tWBPSoGOHOWe+8kQqe9uokGFBBkpjn07+r5fdDPZh/puQvug3vo/5la7UfjxSvWLOl ZjSGAKed4KU2VRuvhdon9kpxSCe0904Sh3xQtSmT7Zkkpj/rdng8ddO4MJqfsSK5FZmq /eIQype4woIELoSEITEjgiTtU+wZe7fxq6vGs= Message-ID: <4D320C32.3070604@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:05:54 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Van Assche CC: James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI postmerge patches for 2.6.38 merge window References: <1295030453.18445.63.camel@mulgrave.site> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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