Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758073AbaGCKl1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2014 06:41:27 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:45341 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756858AbaGCKl0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jul 2014 06:41:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 03:41:21 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Thomas Sch?bel-Theuer Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Thomas Schoebel-Theuer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 49/50] mars: generic pre-patch for mars Message-ID: <20140703104121.GA12585@infradead.org> References: <1404251250-22992-50-git-send-email-tst@schoebel-theuer.de> <20140701223644.GA30330@kroah.com> <53B3B283.7050800@schoebel-theuer.de> <20140702082400.GB10971@kroah.com> <20140702132708.GA26732@infradead.org> <53B418FA.80600@1und1.de> <20140702145024.GA19425@infradead.org> <53B43144.6010306@1und1.de> <20140702184143.GA3061@infradead.org> <53B4F3D9.8050009@1und1.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53B4F3D9.8050009@1und1.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Thoams, On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 08:10:33AM +0200, Thomas Sch?bel-Theuer wrote: > I see the following alternative solutions for this: All your alternatives really miss the point. I general we don't want driver messing with the filesystem namespace, create their own symlink farms or similar. Maybe there is a good explanation why your driver is special, but you haven't provided it. In fact you've provided very little explanation at all. You've submitted a series with a very highlevel introduction, and the 50 patches with no explanation at all. The exported syscalls where the first major issue to stick out, but without even looking at the code I bet there will various other roadblocks if someone actually bothers to review the rest of the code. So before you come up with various take it or leave it alternatives I'd suggest you figure out how a) a driver submission should look like b) explain and "sell" your design so that people get interested in it, and will start to actually review it and discuss your design tradeoffs with it. An attitude of a few options to chose from isn't really going to get your very far. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/