Re: [PATCH 00/21] ceph: Ceph distributed file system client v0.9

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Jun 19 2009 - 19:25:08 EST


On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:15:34PM -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:31:21PM -0700, Sage Weil wrote:
> > > This is a patch series for v0.9 of the Ceph distributed file system
> > > client (against v2.6.30).
> > >
> > > Greg, the first patch in the series creates an fs/staging/ directory.
> > > This is analogous to drivers/staging/ (not built by allyesconfig,
> > > modpost will mark the module with 'staging', etc.), except you can
> > > find it under the File Systems section (and it doesn't get hidden
> > > along with drivers/ on UML).
> > >
> > > If that looks reasonable, I would love to see this go into the staging
> > > tree. The remaining patches add Ceph at fs/staging/ceph.
> >
> > No, please put "staging" filesystems at drivers/staging/ where the other
> > filesystems that are in "staging" shape are.
> >
> > This is due to some core changes needed to mark such modules as
> > "TAINT_CRAP", and to make it obvious who is to blame for such crap :)
>
> Ah, okay. I thought this modpost.c change would be enough to accomplish
> that, but I didn't look too closely:
>
> @@ -1721,8 +1721,10 @@ static void add_header(struct buffer *b, struct
> module *mod)
> void add_staging_flag(struct buffer *b, const char *name)
> {
> static const char *staging_dir = "drivers/staging";
> + static const char *fsstaging_dir = "fs/staging";
>
> - if (strncmp(staging_dir, name, strlen(staging_dir)) == 0)
> + if (strncmp(staging_dir, name, strlen(staging_dir)) == 0 ||
> + strncmp(fsstaging_dir, name, strlen(fsstaging_dir)) == 0)
> buf_printf(b, "\nMODULE_INFO(staging, \"Y\");\n");
> }
>
> Are the core changes onerous? If you don't object in principle, it would
> be nice if staging file systems were easier to find.

Ah, missed the fact that you did change this.

I'd prefer to leave it all in drivers/staging/, the filesystems in there
are already easy to find if you know where to look :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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