Re: [PATCH 0/5]: Fix target_core_user userspace restarts (v2)

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Hey MNC,

Apologies for the delayed follow up.

On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 04:03 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> The following patches were made over Linus's tree
> and my tcmu update here
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/target-devel/msg16283.html
> 
> The first patch prevents possible corruption with buggy tcmu userspace
> apps. The other 4 patches allow tcmu apps to restart themselves while
> IO is being executed. This is needed for management operations like
> updating the app and handling crashes.

Thanks.  The prerequisites where applied earlier this week, including
patch #1-#3 from this series.

> 
> The last four patches are an update to this RFC:
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/target-devel/msg16312.html
> Since that posting I moved the files being added to a new
> dir "action" which is used for special files that execute
> a kernel function that does more than just set a param/attrib
> that is exported from the same file.
> 

Was wondering about that..

Why shouldn't these be added as backend device specific configfs
attributes, similar to what tcmu does for tcmu_attrib_attrs[]..?

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