Re: [HPDD-discuss] Lustre staging driver cleanup

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 05:50:46PM +0000, Simmons, James A. wrote: > >Hi Oleg, > > > >Please find my response inline. > > Hi Saket. I have been active in the very work you brought up. The goal I have set is to resync the Intel branch to what is current in the upstream kernel. This has required us to update the intel branch to handle kernel api changes in newer kernels as well as remove api wrappers like the ones you pointed out. Currently our efforts > are covered with several tickets. > > LU-3963 : Move libcfs wrappers to linux api > LU-5275 : Remove procfs technical debt > LU-5530 : Support for sysfs > LU-5443 : Use kernel timer apis > LU-4416/LU-4493: New kernel support. > LU-4423 : backport upstream kernel patches. > > >From what you posted about it seems LU-3963 is the best place for your work. Also work was done for server/client splitting (LU-1330) but more work could be done since it will be needed for the coming client/server rpm split. Here is the link about submitting work to the Intel lustre tree: > > https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/PUB/Submitting+Changes Ick, no, just send patches upstream against the kernel.org tree, don't deal with a third-party tree, that way lies madness and should be avoided at all costs. I wish this external tree would just be deleted, it's doing nothing but cause confusion. greg k-h