[lustre-devel] Remaining work needed for moving Lustre out of staging

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:34:03AM -0500, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> 
> On Dec 3, 2016, at 3:55 AM, gregkh at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 09:53:08PM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote:
> >> Al,
> >> Greg recently raised the issue of what still needs to be done to
> >> move the Lustre code out of staging/ and into the fs/ tree. 
> >> 
> >> James has been doing a great job of cleaning up various checkpatch
> >> issues and keeping the code updated with the latest fixes, but we
> >> were wondering what you were aware of that needed to be cleaned
> >> up in Lustre?
> > 
> > Is the whole "mixing kernel structures in userspace structures" all
> > resolved now?  For some reason I thought that you had kernel locks being
> > passed to userspace and then back into the kernel, but it's been a long
> > time since I last looked...
> 
> While we certainly had our share of mixing user/kernelspace structures,
> I don't think we ever passed anything with locks around back and forth.
> 
> I just did a brief check and I don't see anything glaring on this particular front.
> 
> > If you feel you are ready for a "real" review, I'll be glad to go over
> > the code before the vfs people look at it, just let me know.  No need to
> > bother them if you still have basic things wrong that I can find…
> 
> I think this would be beneficial at this stage.

I see loads of checkpatch.pl warnings and a few errors, how about fixing
all of them up first?

thanks,

greg k-h