Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Bart Van Assche <> | | Date | Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:25:39 +0100 | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI postmerge patches for 2.6.38 merge window |
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:40 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> wrote: > > This is a set of three patches I've been carrying that had a > dependencies on pieces of the block tree (which went in yesterday). > It's been rebased to go cleanly on top of current git head (and elimnate > some of the merge cruft of creating a postmerge tree). All of the > patches have been in Linux-next for several weeks. > > The two sd/sr patches are just completion of the media events > infrastructure which was in the block tree. The main chunk is the > addition of the LIO in-kernel target infrastructure which is one of the > two competing target infrastructures which have been out of tree for > several years now. Thanks to quite a lot of effort (particularly from > Christoph Hellwig) cleaning it up, I think it's ready for mainline > inclusion. This piece is just the target infrastructure; we'll begin > adding the in-kernel drivers and the migration hooks for STGT (our > original user land target driver) over the next merge window. > > The patch is available here: > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-post-merge-2.6.git > > The short changelog is: > > Nicholas Bellinger (1): > target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6 > [ ... ]
As anyone can see in the source file drivers/target/target_core_mib.c this patch adds a significant number of new files to procfs. I thought that this was considered unacceptable since a long time ? Has anything changed ?
See also http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/target/target_core_mib.c.
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