linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] drbd-8.3 updates

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Date:	Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:49:02 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] drbd-8.3 updates

On 2012-10-03 12:07, Philipp Reisner wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2012, 11:24:09 schrieben Sie:
>>> Not pulled. Two reasons:
>>>
>>> - It's late (in the merge window)
>>> - and it's not based off my for-3.7/drivers branch, hence I get a ton of
>>>
>>>   unrelated changes with a pull into that branch.
>>
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>> I can rebase it for you in a few hours. Would influence this your decission?
>>
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Is there a convenient way for me to find our when it is the right time
> to send pull requests your way? (i.e. a notification when you create your
> for-3.x/drivers branch)

The right time is anytime between -rc1 and -rcN for the previous
release, where N is the last released -rc for that series. IOW, I should
have it before the next merge window opens, not a days into that window.

> Rebasing it on your drivers tree was trivial, here is the updated pull
> request:
> 
> The following changes since commit fab74e7a8f0f8d0af2356c28aa60d55f9e6f5f8b:
> 
>   loop: Make explicit loop device destruction lazy (2012-09-28 10:42:23 +0200)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.drbd.org/linux-drbd.git for-jens
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 61e8114a682b0e868696f8363ed03e5fd4c750d1:
> 
>   drbd: log request sector offset and size for IO errors (2012-10-03 11:54:45 +0200)

Thanks, one question before this is pulled in:

> Philipp Reisner (6):
>       drbd: Add a drbd directory to sysfs
>       drbd: expose the data generation identifiers via sysfs

What are these? It's sitting in /sys/block/<dev>/drbd/, I don't see any
documentation or justification for that.

Why isn't it off in debugfs or similar instead?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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