Re: [HPDD-discuss] Lustre staging driver cleanup
Hello!
On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:07 AM, Rita Sinha wrote:
I have checked and verified that the part of lustre driver that is
in
the staging tree (actually the lustre client driver, according to you)
now, is in sync with the intel tree.
The only problem is this that anyone aspiring to clean up the lustre
driver should be sending patches to both the trees and thus it would
be difficult to keep both the trees in sync.
It's ok if people only send to staging kernel tree.
We are picking patches from there into our internal tree to keep them in sync.
(we are not quite ready to part with RETURN()s and GOTO()s in particular
and we also need to keep older kernel compatibility in mind, but that's
our problem and I cannot really impose this burden on anyone else,
so we are fine with picking cleanups coming into the staging tree and
getting the patches from there ourselves).
There are certain areas where a bit more coordination is needed, e.g.
moving stuff from procfs to sysfs and such (I suspect that this was
the primary reason James mentioned our tree). This is because
the tools that use procfs entries would need to be taught to look
in alternative places, for example.
Thank you for your contributions.
Bye,
Oleg