Re: [PATCH V4 00/10] target/tcmu: make tcmu netlink ops sync

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On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 01:26 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 07/03/2017 12:32 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:

<SNIP>

> > 
> > Applied as-is with the extra -v2 for patch #1.  Thanks for fixing that
> > up.  ;)
> > 
> > One concern though, patch #1 changes the configfs attribute name from
> > 'path' to 'config', which will break existing userspace.
> > 
> > So this isn't really an option, even though I agree the original name
> > isn't particularly a good fit for what it actually does.
> > 
> > That said, would you mind adding an incremental patch that re-adds the
> > original 'path' attribute with existing behavior, and keeps 'config'
> > with the new behavior..?
> > 
> 
> I can, but the patch to add the tcmu_attr_dev_path was never in a
> released kernel. It was just recently added in Bryant's patch:
> 
> commit 0637d7f9698416bf745764edd4f6a20179c254ae
> Author: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Jun 6 09:28:51 2017 -0500
> 
> tcmu: Make dev_config configurable
> 
> that was merged the other week and only in your for-next branch. We do
> not need to keep userspace compatibility with that branch do we?
> 
> 

Whoops, my mistake.  Apologies for the extra noise.

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