From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] target: detect read-only from underlying iblock device
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 07:40:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mqdmv2we23x.fsf@linux-x5ow.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171205205442.25414-1-ddiss@suse.de>
Hi Bart and David,
Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> writes:
> Although the patch itself looks fine to me: do we really need this kind of
> functionality in the kernel? Is it possible to implement the same functionality
> in user space?
We're having exactly the same discussion in NVMe currently, please see
the following thread:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2017-December/014341.html
I tend to agree with David (and Sagi for the NVMe case) in that we
should handle this in the kernel.
Byte,
Johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-06 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-05 20:54 [RFC PATCH] target: detect read-only from underlying iblock device David Disseldorp
2017-12-06 4:33 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-12-06 7:40 ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
2017-12-06 12:29 ` David Disseldorp
2017-12-07 14:47 ` David Disseldorp
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