On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 11:47:51AM +0800, Ren Mingxin wrote: > On 04/04/2012 04:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:00:45PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > >>On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:56:18AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > >>>So if we're agreed no other devices going forwards should ever use this > >>>interface, is there any point unifying the interface? No matter how > >>>many caveats you hedge it round with, putting the API in a central place > >>>will be a bit like a honey trap for careless bears. It might be safer > >>>just to leave it buried in the three current drivers. > >>Yeah, that was my hope but I think it would be easier to enforce to > >>have a common function which is clearly marked legacy so that new > >>driver writers can go look for the naming code in the existing ones, > >>find out they're all using the same function which is marked legacy > >>and explains what to do for newer drivers. > >I think I'm not the only one to be confused about the > >preferred direction here. > >James, do you agree to the approach above? > > > >It would be nice to fix virtio block for 3.4, so > >how about this: > >- I'll just apply the original bugfix patch for 3.4 - > > it only affects virtio > > Sorry, about only affects virtio, I'm not very clear here: > 1) Just duplicate the disk name format function in virtio_blk > like the original patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/28/45 So I'd like to apply this, and we can discuss the deduplication for 3.5. Please post a version of this that 1. isn't line-wrapped and doesn't have damaged whitespace so I can run git am on it 2. lists the # of duspported disks correctly as 26^3+(26^2+26) in the description Thanks! > 2) Move the disk name format function into block core like > this patch series but only affects virtio(not affect mtip32xx). > Do you mean the 2) one or something else? > > >- Ren will repost the refactoring patch on top, and we can > > keep up the discussion > > > >Ren if you agree, can you make this a two patch series please? > > > > Sure. > > -- > Thanks, > Ren -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
