[dm-devel] [PATCH][RESEND+fixes] dm + sysfs

Joe Thornber thornber at sistina.com
Mon Dec 8 03:47:01 UTC 2003


On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 07:52:43PM -0800, Mike Christie wrote:
> From this perspective where all interfaces are built on top of sysfs,
> and it is replacing the status infrastrucure with a standard stucture
> common to the kernel, would it be preferable to keep my kobjects with
> the gendisk's in the core dm structs rather than moving mine and using
> the callback design?

ok, I accept your argument that sysfs is a lot smaller interface than
dmfs/ioctl.  However I'm not polluting nice clear abstractions like
dm_table with sysfs.  So I think we have to go the callback way.  It's
probably more work for you, but I need to draw these lines in order to
keep control of the complexity, your patch makes it more complicated
for people to understand and modify the code.

Sorry this isn't the answer you were hoping for :(

- Joe





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