From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH] nvme: Remove SCSI translations
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 17:37:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170614153754.GA13038@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1497452191-11429-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com>
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017@10:56:31AM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> The SCSI-to-NVMe translations were added to assist storage applications
> utilizing SG_IO transitioning to NVMe. It was always recommended, however,
> to use native NVMe for device management: too much is lost in translation
> and the maintenance burden in keeping this kludgey layer around has been
> neglected such that much of the translations are completely broken.
>
> This patch removes SG_IO handling from NVMe. The config option has been
> disabled by default for quite some time now, so hopefully it's safe to
> remove. If not, this will force people to do the right thing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
I like this but would like to hear from the SuSE folks first
as indicated in the other mail.
Also at least the nvme_get_log_page and nvme_set_features functions
in core.c are unused after this patch and can be removed as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-14 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-14 14:56 [PATCH] nvme: Remove SCSI translations Keith Busch
2017-06-14 14:50 ` Jens Axboe
2017-06-14 15:17 ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-06-14 15:37 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-06-15 9:18 ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-06-15 9:47 ` Max Gurtovoy
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