On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 01:27 -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 02:15:56PM -0800, Lee Duncan wrote: > > Hi: > > > > When building targetcli, I have been ignoring build-service warnings for > > years that it should not be using /var/target. > > > > As I'm pretty sure everyone here knows, we evidently should not be > > creating a high-level directory in /var (see http://www.linfo.org/var.html) > > > > I understand that it hasn't been moved because it's kind of a PITA, > > being defined in both the kernel and in user-land. > > I think this is a good opportunity to get rid of the direct > reading/writing of files from kernel space, as this shouldn't have > splipped in in the first place. Lots of people depend on this functionality as-is for PR APTPL, in order to rebuild full SPC-3 PR state across export fail-over. While I'm happy to consider other methods of doing this, I don't think the original code can go away until there is something (at least) that mimics existing behavior to user-space. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
