Re: [PATCH-v2] MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/target/ entry

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue May 24 2011 - 02:43:46 EST


On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 23:11 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 16:36 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:10 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > > From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > +TARGET SUBSYSTEM
> > > +M: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > +L: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > +L: http://groups.google.com/group/linux-iscsi-target-dev
> > > +W: http://www.linux-iscsi.org
> > > +T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/lio-core-2.6.git master
> > > +S: Supported
> > > +F: drivers/target/
> > > +F: include/target/
> > > +F: Documentation/target/
> >
> > Shouldn't the file layout be more like
> > drivers/lio/target?
> Hi Joe,

Hi Nicholas.

> Not sure what you mean here.. Currently drivers/target/ contains the
> fabric independent target core, and /drivers/target/$FABRIC/ contains
> individual fabric module drivers.
>
> I originally decided to use drivers/target/ to avoid any confusion wrt
> to the 'LIO' term, which to some folks is interchangable wrt to the
> 'iscsi-target' fabric module.

Target doesn't mean much to me and the wiki calls the
system LIO.

http://linux-iscsi.org/wiki/Main_Page

I think that drivers/target might be better renamed to
drivers/lio/target and drivers/lio/target/$FABRIC could
be below that.

No worries if you think otherwise.

cheers, Joe

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/