linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/10] Add configurable block device LED triggers

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Message-ID: <YRIeHH1SLl6tYCeY@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:35:08 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@...il.com>
Cc:     Marek Behún <kabel@...nel.org>, hch@....de,
        axboe@...nel.dk, kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        pavel@....cz, pali@...nel.org, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/10] Add configurable block device LED triggers

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 06:50:44PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 8/9/21 5:43 PM, Marek Behún wrote:
> > I confess that I am not very familiar with internal blkdev API.
> 
> It's mainly a matter of symbol visibility.  See this thread from a few
> months ago:
> 
>   https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-leds/msg18244.html
> 
> Now ... my code currently lives in block/, so there isn't actually
> anything technically preventing it from iterating through the block
> devices.
> 
> The reactions to Enzo's patch (which you can see in that thread) make me
> think that anything that iterates through all block devices is likely to
> be rejected, but maybe I'm reading too much into it.
> 
> 
> Greg / Christoph -
> 
> (As you were the people who expressed disapproval of Enzo's patch to
> export block_class and disk_type ...)
> 
> Can you weigh in on the acceptability of iterating through the block
> devices (searching by name) from LED trigger code within the block
> subsystem (i.e. no new symbols would need to be exported)?
> 
> This would allow the trigger to implement the sysfs API that Marek and
> Pavel want.

No idea, let's see the change first, we can never promise anything :)

thanks,

greg k-h