On Thu, 2018-12-27 at 19:29 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> Prompted by a need to add more commands to daxctl, and define a new
> configuration file for daxctl to install, I took a look at the ndctl
> monitor configuration file implementation and several fixes fell out.
> 
> An initial attempt to remove casts from the ndctl monitor uncovered
> other cleanup opportunities. The motivation for some of the casts in
> ndctl/monitor.c was due to the need to de-reference the 'ctx' parameter
> passed to the log routines. That issue can be mitigated by teaching the
> command harness to pass a typed version of the @ctx argument to the
> builtin-command routines. However, looking closer, the monitor should
> not be passing @ctx to the log routines, it should establish its own
> log-context. That lead to the discovery of a few more cleanup
> opportunities, like unnecessary usage of vaprintf().
> 
> More is possible. I am not comfortable with the fact that the log
> facility dynamically changes the output and the output target based on
> the priority. The monitor also has several occasions where it is
> dynamically allocating memory unnecessarily.
> 
> ---
> 
> Dan Williams (7):
>       ndctl, daxctl: Split builtin.h per-command
>       ndctl, daxctl: Add type-safety to command harness
>       ndctl/monitor: Drop 'struct ndctl_ctx *' casts
>       ndctl/monitor: Unify definition of default monitor configfile path
>       ndctl/monitor: Fix / cleanup log_file()
>       ndctl/monitor: Drop vasprintf usage
>       ndctl/monitor: Kill usage of ndctl/lib/private.h
> 

These look good, applied.

> 
>  builtin.h            |   51 ----------------
>  configure.ac         |    8 ++
>  daxctl/builtin.h     |    8 ++
>  daxctl/daxctl.c      |   16 ++---
>  daxctl/list.c        |    2 -
>  ndctl/Makefile.am    |    6 +-
>  ndctl/bat.c          |    2 -
>  ndctl/builtin.h      |   35 +++++++++++
>  ndctl/bus.c          |    4 +
>  ndctl/create-nfit.c  |    2 -
>  ndctl/dimm.c         |   18 +++---
>  ndctl/inject-error.c |    3 -
>  ndctl/inject-smart.c |    3 -
>  ndctl/list.c         |    2 -
>  ndctl/monitor.c      |  163 
> ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
>  ndctl/namespace.c    |   10 ++-
>  ndctl/ndctl.c        |   64 ++++++++++----------
>  ndctl/region.c       |    4 +
>  ndctl/test.c         |    2 -
>  util/main.c          |   13 ++--
>  util/main.h          |   20 ++++++
>  21 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 builtin.h
>  create mode 100644 daxctl/builtin.h
>  create mode 100644 ndctl/builtin.h

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