linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] MUSE: Userspace backed MTD v3

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Message-ID: <CAJfpegufojx4q_CfR6L-fzSyQw9QXJZKy5xKVZZWaepADkL=Kw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:12:26 +0100
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>,
        Ron Minnich <rminnich@...gle.com>, sven <sven@...fation.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        fuse-devel <fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] MUSE: Userspace backed MTD v3

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:06 PM Richard Weinberger <richard@....at> wrote:
>
> Miklos,
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> >> I do wonder if MUSE should go to drivers/mtd/ instead.   Long term
> >> goal would be move CUSE to drivers/char and move the transport part of
> >> fuse into net/fuse leaving only the actual filesystems (fuse and
> >> virtiofs) under fs/.
> >>
> >> But for now just moving the minimal interface needed for MUSE into a
> >> separate header (<net/fuse.h>) would work, I guess.
> >>
> >> Do you think that would make sense?
> >
> > Yes, I'm all for having MUSE in drivers/mtd/.
> >
> > I placed MUSE initially in fs/fuse/ because CUSE was already there and muse.c
> > includes
> > fuse_i.h. So tried to be as little invasive as possible.
>
> I did a quick patch series which moves CUSE into drivers/char/
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc.git/log/?h=fs_fuse_split
>
> Does this more or less what you had in mind?

Just moving the whole internal header file is not nice.  I did a
mechanical public/private separation of the interface based on what
CUSE uses.   Incremental patch attached.

But this is just a start.  From the big structures still left in
<net/fuse.h> CUSE only uses the following fields:

fc: .minor, max_read, max_write, rcu, release, initialized, num_waiting
fm: .fc
ff: .fm
fud: .fc

Dealing with the last 3 is trivial:  create and alloc function for the
fm, and create accessor functions for the accessed fields.

Dealing with fc properly is probably a bit more involved, but does not
seem to be too compex at first glance.

Do you want to take a stab at cleaning this up further?

Thanks,
Miklos

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