Re: [PATCH 10/11] staging: lustre: move ldlm into ptlrpc

[NeilBrown]

On Thu, Jun 07 2018, James Simmons wrote:

>> The ldlm code is built into the ptlrpc module, yet it lived in a
>> separate directory.  This requires filename editing in the Makefile
>> and make it difficult to e.g. build the .s file for code in ldlm.
>> 
>> All the ldlm files have distinctive names so confusion from having
>> ptlrpc and ldlm in the same directory is unlikely.  So move them all
>> into ptlrpc.
>
> Nak. The reason is it would be nice to keep the directory structure.
> What really needs to be done and Oleg has looked into it is to reduced
> the number of modules created down to two, one for LNet and the other
> lustre.ko. This also is a step in the right direction to remove the
> create struct obd_ops and struct md_ops pointer madness. Well their
> is the issue with obd echo client but we can deal with this at a later 
> date. Also the number of EXPORT_SYMBOLS and things will greatly reduce.

Yeah, you are probably right.
I had a bit of a look at how to build everything into a
single module.  You can do with by having a single make
file that lists parts from other directories - the same way
that ptlrpc includes files from ldlm - but that is rather ugly.

I've very nearly got it working using the lib-y infrastructure.
I can build lnet as a single module, but the dependency calc isn't
quite right so things happen in the wrong order.  The build
fails the first time because some files don't exist, then
succeeds on the second run.
Hopefully I'll figure out how to make it work tomorrow.

Thanks for the review,
NeilBrown

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