Re: [GIT PULL] target updates for v3.16-rc1

From: Nicholas A. Bellinger
Date: Fri Jun 13 2014 - 14:09:43 EST


On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 11:07 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 15:39 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 02:05:16PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > > The first is with virtio-scsi between what has been merged in scsi.git
> > > for "virtio_scsi: use cmd_size", and the "virtio-scsi: Enable DIF/DIX
> > > modes in SCSI host LLD" below. (Adding Paolo + hch CC')
> >
> > Just curious, why did we decide to take the virtio-scsi patches
> > through the target tree? Seems like taking them through the scsi
> > tree would have been a lot simpler.
> >
>
> It's a matter of keeping changes together so they could be run from a
> single branch, without having to merge the entirety of scsi.git in order
> to test a new target features involving some manner of LLD changes.
>
> Stuff like the qla2xxx target T10 PI where OK to go through scsi.git,
> because they really didn't depend on target changes, but for things like
> virtio-scsi + vhost-scsi T10 PI, or the iser-initiator + iser-target T10
> PI data_length changes where one can't function without the other,
> breaking up initiator / target patches across trees will just end up
> making my work-flow unnecessarily more difficult.
>
> I'd say identifying these types of merge conflicts is what linux-next is
> supposed to be for, and at least this time around the conflicts ended up
> being straight-forward to resolve with srf's patches.
>

... with SFR's patches, of course. ;)

--nab

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