Re: [PATCH 0/4] nfs: kobject: use generic helpers and ownership

[Alexander Aring]

Dear nfs tree maintainers,

On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 11:15 AM Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I currently have pending patches for fs/dlm (Distributed Lock Manager)
> subsystem to introduce some helpers to udev. However, it seems it takes
> more time that I can bring those changes upstream. I put those out now
> and already figured out that nfs can also take advantage of those changes.
>
> With this patch-series I try to try to reduce my patch-series for DLM
> and already bring part of it upstream and nfs will be a user of it.
>
> The ownership callback, I think it should be set as the
> kset_create_and_add() sets this callback as default. I never had any
> issues with it, but there might be container corner cases that requires
> those changes?
>
> - Alex
>

Can we have those patches applied to the nfs tree? According to the
udev/kobject maintainer it is fine to take this in any tree that it
needs to go through. [0]
I made nfs as a first user of these new udev helpers functionality, so
it should go through the nfs tree if there are no other issues with
this series?

Thanks.

- Alex

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/gfs2/2024081519-caddy-monstrous-b37d@gregkh/