Re: [PATCH 2/4] miscdevice: add a minor number for nbd-control

2017-01-21 Thread Josef Bacik
> On Jan 21, 2017, at 4:03 AM, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:56:50PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: >> NBD is moving to a loop-control esque way of managing it's device >> creation and deletion. Reserver a minor number for the new device. >> >>

Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 4/4] nbd: add a nbd-control interface

2017-01-21 Thread Josef Bacik
> On Jan 21, 2017, at 7:12 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:56:52PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: >> This patch mirrors the loop back device behavior with a few changes. First >> there is no DEL operation as NBD doesn't get as much churn as loop devices >>

Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 4/4] nbd: add a nbd-control interface

2017-01-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:56:52PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: > This patch mirrors the loop back device behavior with a few changes. First > there is no DEL operation as NBD doesn't get as much churn as loop devices do. > Secondly the GET_NEXT operation can optionally create a new NBD device or

Re: [PATCH 4/4] nbd: add a nbd-control interface

2017-01-21 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:56:52PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: > This patch mirrors the loop back device behavior with a few changes. First > there is no DEL operation as NBD doesn't get as much churn as loop devices do. > Secondly the GET_NEXT operation can optionally create a new NBD device or

Re: [PATCH 2/4] miscdevice: add a minor number for nbd-control

2017-01-21 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 04:56:50PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: > NBD is moving to a loop-control esque way of managing it's device > creation and deletion. Reserver a minor number for the new device. > > Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik > --- > include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + > 1 file