On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:34:49AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Sleeping on things, I now feel pretty strongly that having target_submit_cmd
> return an error value for "immediate" errors where the command does not
> make it into the target core is the right approach.

I think it is.  When I tried to convert other drivers to
target_submit_cmd while doing the target processing thread removal that
would have simplified a lot of things.

> Freeing commands is already one of the most confusing and complex parts
> of the target code, with "check_stop_free," "cmd_wait_comp" and
> "SCF_ACK_KREF."  Adding another code flow back to the fabric driver
> with yet another set of semantics around freeing a command seems like
> it's making things even harder to maintain.

True.  And the above mess really needs to be simplified, too.

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