Re: [PATCH 02/48] staging/lustre/obdclass: restore lu_ref

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jul 23 2013 - 16:52:34 EST


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:31:15PM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> On 2013/07/23 1:37 PM, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:06:23AM +0800, Peng Tao wrote:
> >> lu_ref.[ch] were mistakenly removed by coan2. Add them back and guard
> >> with CONFIG_LUSTRE_DEBUG_LU_REF_CHECK.
> >
> >Ick, why? Why not use the in-kernel infrastructure for this type of
> >thig, _iff_ you really need it.
> >
> >Why do you need this at all, isn't the reference code fully debugged by
> >now, given that this has been running for years? I would only expect to
> >see something like this in new code that is still being developed.
>
> Lustre is still being developed, so it is useful to be able to enable this
> debugging to catch any new problems that are introduced.

Ok, then use the in-kernel infrastructure for this type of thing, don't
roll your own and add custom stuff that will later just have to be
ripped out and converted to use the in-kernel stuff.

thanks,

greg k-h
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