Re: [PATCH 2/5] tcm: Unify INQUIRY subsystem plugin handling

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Oct 13 2010 - 20:04:46 EST


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:19:49PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> I should point out that the majority of values mentioned here (other
> than the two INQUIRY strings) are already present in struct
> se_dev_attrib and which appear as configfs attributes under
> under /sys/kernel/config/target/core/$HBA/$DEV/attrib/. This means that
> the struct se_subsystem_api calls only really used by during init
> target_core_device.c:se_dev_set_default_attribs() and
> DEV_ATTRIB(dev)->block_size, etc are used in TCM Core code.
>
> I am happy to include the two INQUIRY strings needed for emulation into
> struct se_subsystem_api directly, but I would still prefer to keep the
> function pointers for extracting values from subsystem specific code for
> the initial device attribute setup.

What's the point? It's a lot of boilerplate code that does nothing
but obsfucating what's actually going on there.

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