From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hsh@infradead.org>,
James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:41:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D893B3.6020407@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140729171414.GA1060@infradead.org>
On 07/29/2014 07:14 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:45:17PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> ZBC drives are close to disk devices, so sd.c is well
>> suited as a testbed for ZBC devices.
>> This patch introduces a module option 'attach_zbc' to
>> sd which will make the sd driver accept ZBC
>> devices as normal disk drives.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
>
> Looks reasonable to me.
>
> I'd also really like a sysfs file that tells us if we're dealing
> with a host aware device, as those report as TYPE_SBC.
>
Yes, eventually. But can't we defer that to a next patchset?
I'd really like to have this one in, as it makes dealing with ZAC
devices _so much_ easier ...
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-30 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-29 14:45 [PATCHv3 0/4] Initial SMR drive support Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] libata: consolidate ata_dev_classify() Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] libata: Implement ATA_DEV_ZAC Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] libata-scsi: Update SATL for ZAC drives Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 17:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-30 6:18 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 17:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-30 6:41 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2014-07-30 11:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2014-07-30 7:55 [PATCHv4 0/4] Initial SMR drive support Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-30 7:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices Hannes Reinecke
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