[ewg] Re: [PATCH 2/2] IB/iser: add backport & kernel addons for open-iscsi over iSER support for RHAS4 up3 and up4

Erez Zilber erezz at voltaire.com
Sun May 13 02:38:38 PDT 2007


Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>> Quoting Erez Zilber <erezz at voltaire.com>:
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] IB/iser: add backport & kernel addons for open-iscsi over iSER support for RHAS4 up3 and up4
>>
>>
>> Add the required backport patches & kernel addons for open-iscsi
>> over iSER in RHAS4 up3 and up4.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Erez Zilber <erezz at voltaire.com>
>>     
>
> In addition to posting patches, could you pls publish a git tree to pull from,
> please? This makes it easy to test-build the patch as our build system
> knows how to do git checkout.
>
> ---
>
> Two comments, generally
> A: Please move code from kernel_patches to kernel_addons as much
>    as possible. There are many places where you just add new headers,
>    or add #include directives, or change the function called or
>    remove extra parameters, all this can and should be done through addons.
>
> B: Please do not add code to core unless there is more than 1 user -
>    add it to the iser module instead. This way if there is
>    compilation failure there, you do not break core for people.
>
>   

Thanks for the feedback. I will make the fixes and post a new version soon.

Erez




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