linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc4 (target

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Date:	Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:44:45 -0800
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
	scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc4 (target_core: rmmod GP fault)

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 14:28 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 12:20 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 14:13 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > Firstly, could we get the serious bug fixes identified and separated
> > > from the general enhancement updates, so they can go in a fixes tree
> > > without depending on enhancements?  The former category would include
> > > the /proc interface removal, since we don't want the legacy interface to
> > > be in a released kernel.
> > > 
> > 
> > Everything in those two series should be considered bug fixes and
> > immediate for-38 mainline material.
> 
> Things like this:
> 
> target: remove EXTRA_CFLAGS
> target: Remove unnecessary container_of() pointer check
> target: Remove unnecessary se_clear_dev_ports legacy code
> target: Remove spurious double cast from structure macro accessors
> target: Convert TMR REQ/RSP definitions to target namespace

This is an important one, as using w/o TMR_* prefixed definitions for
task management response/response defs, we run into problems with
existing include/scsi/scsi.h message codes.

> target: Minor sparse warning fixes and annotations
> target: Remove unneeded test of se_cmd
> 
> Are not serious bug fixes.  I could go either way on some of the error path changes.
> 

Yes, these others are minor items that have been submitted by people
(hch, roland, jesper, danc) who have been reviewing target code since it
was merged for .38-rc1.

Considering how minor these are I would prefer to have these merged,
than deferring for-39.  If not, then I will need to respin tree w/o
their cleanups if what you prefer to be sent to Linus for-38, there are
3 other bugfix patches in the upstream LIO tree that I have been saving
for-38-rc5 since for-38-rc4 was cut(considering the two outstanding
series).  I would like to have these included as well.

Do you want me to send them all to the linux-scsi list again...?

--nab

  



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> 
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