From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753614AbaEDBUf (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2014 21:20:35 -0400 Received: from linuxhacker.ru ([217.76.32.60]:52766 "EHLO fiona.linuxhacker.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753557AbaEDBUe convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 May 2014 21:20:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/lustre: Replace jobid acquiring with per node setting Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Oleg Drokin In-Reply-To: <20140503232945.GA15714@kroah.com> Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 21:20:06 -0400 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Andreas Dilger Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: References: <1398651712-5015-1-git-send-email-green@linuxhacker.ru> <20140503232945.GA15714@kroah.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On May 3, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:21:52PM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: >> Insted of meddling directly in process environment variables >> (which is also not possible on certain platforms due to not exported >> symbols), create jobid_name proc file to represent this info >> (to be filled by job scheduler epilogue). > That looks better, but what are you going to do about getting rid of all > of these proc files? Just move them all at once? I really don't like > the idea of adding new ones, and want a plan for what you all are going > to do here moving forward. What proc files are to referring to, if I may ask? I don't think I saw complaints about proc files, the complaints I saw were mostly about reading env variables directly and the like so that was the focus of this patch. Did I miss some side discussion? Any pointers? Thanks! Bye, Oleg