Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:07:09 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
To:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
Cc:	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC-v4 00/12] iSCSI target v4.1.0-rc1 series for .39-rc1

On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 13:54 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 02:31 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
> > 
> > Greetings all,
> > 
> > This is the forth RFC series of the RisingTide Systems iSCSI target fabric
> > module compatible with mainline target core v4 -> for-39 target infrastructure.
> > 
> > More information about iscsi_target_mod is available here:
> > 
> > http://linux-iscsi.org/wiki/ISCSI/configFS
> > 
> > This series contains the updated drivers/target/iscsi/ source tree for modern
> > mainline code based on feedback from Christoph Hellwig that has been recently
> > pushed into the lio-core-2.6.git/lio-4.1 development branch.  This includes
> > another round of iSCSI network portal changes to use proper Linux/Net code
> > w/ IPv6/IPv4 iscsi_np->np_sockaddr, conversion of iSCSI TX thread context
> > to use schedule_timeout_interruptible(), and the renaming the majority of
> > functions to use the 'iscsit_*' function prefix based upon hch's feedback.
> > 
> > This series is currently rebased against .38-FINAL using target core v4.0.0-rc7-ml.
> > 
> > The full RFC-v4 series for iscsi-target is available here:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/scsi-post-merge-2.6.git for-39-iscsi-target-v4
> > 
> > The changes from RFC-v3 -> RFC-v4 include:
> > 
> > *) Make iscsit_[free,stop]_session take conn_tmp reference first
> > *) Convert NPF_NET_IPV* flags to AF_INET*
> > *) Add missing unlock for iscsi_get_np
> > *) Convert iscsi_target_tpg.c to use 'iscsit_' function prefixe
> > *) Convert iscsi_target_device.c to use 'iscsit_' function pref
> > *) Convert iscsi_target_seq_pdu_list.c to use 'iscsit_' functio
> > *) Convert iscsi_target_datain_values.c to use 'iscsit_' functi
> > *) Convert iscsi_target_tmr.c to use 'iscsit_' function prefixe
> > *) Convert iscsi_target_nodeattrib.c to use 'iscsit_' function 
> > *) Convert iscsi_target_erl*.c to use 'iscsit_' function prefix
> > *) Convert iscsi_target_util.c to use 'iscsit_' function prefix
> > *) Convert iscsi_target.c to use 'iscsit_' function prefixes
> > *) Move iscsi_add_nopin into iscsi_target_util.c
> > *) Move iscsi_ack_from_expstatsn into iscsi_target.c
> > *) Drop needless iscsi_target_util.c wrappers
> > *) Move extern target_core_fabric_ops functions into iscsi_targ
> > *) Add comments for RX/TX nice usage and iscsi_release_commands
> > *) Convert TX thread to use schedule_timeout_interruptible
> > *) Fix potential NULL deference in iscsi_[free,stop]_session
> > *) Fix iscsi_np shutdown race
> > *) Drop iscsi_np->np_shutdown and ->np_state_lock
> > *) Remove dead iscsi_tpg_free_network_portals code
> > *) Remove remaining comment stubs
> > *) Convert cases to wait_for_completion*_timeout
> > *) Remove ad-hod debugging code
> > 
> > The changes from RFC-v2 -> RFC-v3 include:
> > 
> > *) Remove dead tpg shutdown code
> > *) Remove dead struct iscsi_np_ex logic
> > *) Fix up network portal handling
> > *) Rename core_* prefixed functions to iscsit_*
> > *) Convert semaphores to completion and mutex
> > *) Convert iscsi_global members to global variables
> > *) Cleanups for iscsi_target_login_thread logic
> > *) Use SIGINT in iscsi_handle_login_thread_timeout()
> > *) Cleanups for iscsi_thread_queue.c logic
> > *) Drop MOD_TIMER and SETUP_TIMER macros
> > *) Convert iscsi_index_t to use idr.h
> > *) Remove CONN* and SESS* deference macros
> > *) Update copyright and vendor
> > *) Fix up remaining struct semaphore callbacks
> > *) Renaming renaming non iscsi_target_* source files
> > 
> > The changes from RFC-v1 -> RFC-v2 include:
> > 
> > *) Drop extra crc32c_intel libcrypto magic from iscsi_login_setup_crypto()
> > *) Fix padded login response payload breakage from initial iscsi_proto.h
> >    conversion
> > *) Cleanups for iscsi_target_core.h and conversion a number of definitions
> >    to enums and inline defs
> > *) Removal of '__' prefix around u32 and friends
> > *) Other miscellanous checkpatch.pl cleanups
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
> > 
> 
> Hi Christoph, James and Co,
> 
> At this point I have no further changes beyond RFC-v4 for the initial
> merge of iscsi-target.  Please let me know if anything was missed from
> your review for the above changes, and I will get any remaining items
> addressed ASAP.

OK ... so if you're ready, you can send the next one as a patch not rfc.

> Also James, how do you prefer this series be sent out for the initial
> merge in order avoid the vger lists max character limit..?

I don't really care ... it's fairly easy to combine stuff.  It's nice if
the first patch has the complete changelog ...

James


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