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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: f_mass_storage vs drivers/target
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 02:32:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190821093219.GA24207@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b5d460e023284a803d5f448655d5c20de711f12.camel@kernel.crashing.org>

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 01:38:49PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi folks !
> 
> It seems that f_mass_storage duplicates (well maybe predates too..) a
> lot of what's in drivers/target.

It predates it by a long time.

> Anybody working on implementing a new version of f_mass_storage that
> is layered upon drivers/target instead ? That would bring quite a lot
> of additional functionality.

Why is that needed?  What functionality is missing that it will provide?
Will it make the code simpler?

> If not, I might look into it.

Hey, we don't refuse patches, for cleaning stuff up, you know that :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-21  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-21  3:38 f_mass_storage vs drivers/target Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-08-21  9:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-08-21 14:25 ` Alan Stern
2019-08-22  0:10   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-08-22  4:58     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-08-22  5:14       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-08-22  5:48         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-08-22 17:30         ` Alan Stern
2019-08-23  0:40           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2019-08-23 15:21             ` Alan Stern
2019-08-26  2:19               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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