Re: a configfs update for 4.5, and the configfs tree question

Nicholas A. Bellinger
2016-01-06T17:32:10Z

On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 15:51 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I really want the configfs change in this series to go into 4.5. Originally
> both Pantelis and I had changes ontop that would require it in a stable
> non-rebased branch, but one or both of those might not make the cut.
>
> As this has been a problem with a increased configfs actitivly lately I'd
> like to volunteer to co-maintain configfs and keep a git tree that can
> be used as stable baseline for all involved parties instead of the
> patch-only -mm tree or occasional merge through the SCSI target tree.
>
> I've started out with just this patch in my tree:
>
> git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git configfs-for-4.5
>
> or gitweb:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/vfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/configfs-for-4.5
>
> I know Krzysztof also had pending changes and I'd be happy to collect them
> as well.

Wrt to Krzysztof's set of aforementioned configfs patches, they have
been in target-pending/for-next for the last few weeks now..

Since the larger set of Andrzej's usb-gadget target changes depend upon
these configfs changes, it makes sense to keep them together in the
target tree.

Beyond that, I'm glad to see a dedicated configfs tree.

Thanks HCH.