On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 06:04:37PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 21:01 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 01:41:46PM -0400, Laurence Oberman wrote: > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > To: "Benjamin Drung" <benjamin.drung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 1:11:06 PM > > > > Subject: Re: srp_daemon : Disallow all targets if not explicitly allowed by default > > > > > > > > On 05/09/17 10:07, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > > > srptools 1.0.3-2 in Debian disallows all targets if not explicitly > > > > > allowed by default. Motivation (taken from debian/changelog): > > > > > > > > > > * Don't activate any targets per default. (Closes: #740945) > > > > > This is more sensible than the previous default of bringing > > > > > up all targets in the IB fabric upon boot. In a larger fabric > > > > > with many storage targets available, most of the times only > > > > > one or a few targets are wanted on a particular machine. > > > > > > > > > > Do you agree and could you change the default upstream? I prefer not to > > > > > carry a different behavior in Debian alone. > > > > > > > > Hello Benjamin, > > > > > > > > What I expect is that users will hate this change. They will notice that > > > > after they have installed and enabled srp_daemon that no targets are > > > > discovered without having any clue why no automatic login to SRP targets > > > > occurs. > > > > > > Indeed, I agree with Bart here, this change will lead to a lot of confusion about why users no longer see device discovery. > > > For me I would prefer its not changed. > > > > According to the Benjamin's description, this is already behavior of > > Debian and their derivatives. So this change won't change for these users > > anything. I think that the best solution will be to keep in sync distros > > and upstream. Or enable by default on all systems or disable by default > > on all systems. > > Users of large setups know how to edit the srp_daemon configuration file but > most users of small setups don't know how to edit that configuration file. So > if consistency is required my advice is to change the behavior on Debian to > activating all targets by default. I'm fine with any option as long as Debian and upstream are in sync. Thanks > > Bart.-- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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