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From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 07:40:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] target: detect read-only from underlying iblock device
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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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