Am Dienstag, den 09.05.2017, 21:01 +0300 schrieb Leon Romanovsky: > 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-rdm > > > a@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. > > > > > > 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.htm > > > l > > > > > > > Hello > > > > 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. This change was uploaded to Debian unstable two days ago. So it is a recent change done by Roland Fehrenbacher (CCed) which still can be reverted. I'm fine with any option as long as Debian and upstream are in sync. Bart's objection (that 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) seem valid to me. Roland, your input please. -- Benjamin Drung System Developer Debian & Ubuntu Developer ProfitBricks GmbH Greifswalder Str. 207 D - 10405 Berlin Email: benjamin.drung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: https://www.profitbricks.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506B. Geschäftsführer: Achim Weiss.
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