On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:23:42PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 06:48:39PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > >> Hi Ming, > >> > >> I wrote this against your devel-v3 branch. I'm wondering if you plan to > >> send a new version of the kernel patch soon? From the latest > > > > Yeah, that is on my todo list: > > > > https://github.com/ming1/linux/commits/my_for-5.19-ubd-devel_v3 > > > > there has lots cleanup & improvement. > > > >> discussions, I don't think there were major issues found on review. :) > > > > One problem is the driver name, and Christoph thought we have > > 'arch/um/drivers/ubd*.c'. Not thought of one good candidate yet. > > Hi Ming, > > Thanks for the info, and sorry for not noticing the fix merged on Jun, 3rd > on the master branch. I will follow that branch when testing and submit > fixes I find along the way. That is great! > > I guess you have considered a lot of names, but I'd suggest any of: > > * blkuser, > * ublk > * BUSE (as in Block FUSE, though there is another non-upstream > project with that name), > * UBIO (as in UIO, but for Block IO) > * B2U (Block IO Backed by userspace) :-P > > TBH, my favorite is ublk. Me too, will change to it in v3 if no one objects. Thanks, Ming
