linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] SCSI: hosts: update to use ida_simple for host

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:24:27 -0800
From:	Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>
To:	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Cc:	emilne@...hat.com,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] SCSI: hosts: update to use ida_simple for host_no
 management

On 12/14/2015 05:55 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de> writes:
> 
>>> I'm not opposed to having the module option if others (Martin?) feel
>>> they need it, but generally I think it's better to keep things as
>>> simple as possible.  So, unless there are strong objections, I would
>>> say no.
> 
> Hannes> Agreeing with Ewan here.
> 
> Hannes> I guess it's up to you to tell us whether you absolutely need a
> Hannes> module parameter ...
> 
> Still not a big ida fan but since the most people seem to be in favor of
> this I guess I'll have to bite the bullet.
> 
> I don't see much value in the module parameter since it will require
> customers to tweak their configs and reproduce. Not worth the hassle.
> 

Thank you Martin. I'll look at further cleaning up the host module, but
I think this still much better than leaving the code as is.

-- 
Lee Duncan
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/