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

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:43:40 -0700

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 <[email-masked]>
> > > +TARGET SUBSYSTEM
> > > +M:	Nicholas A. Bellinger <[email-masked]>
> > > +L:	[email-masked]
> > > +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