Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] block: Remove skd driver

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 2/4/21 7:52 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 2021/02/04 23:46, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 2/4/21 1:43 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>> Hi Jens,
>>>
>>> Instead of spending time fixing the skd driver to (at the very least)
>>> fix the call to set_capacity() with IRQ disabled, I am proposing to
>>> simply remove this driver. The STEC S1220 cards are EOL since 2014 and
>>> not supported by the vendor since several years ago. Given that these
>>> SSDs are very slow by today's NVMe standard, I do not think it is
>>> worthwhile to maintain this driver with newer kernel versions. I will
>>> keep addressing any problem that shows up with LTS versions.
>>>
>>> The first patch removes the skd driver and the second patch reverts
>>> commit 0fe37724f8e7 ("block: fix bd_size_lock use") as the skd driver
>>> was the one driver that needed this (not so nice) fix.
>>>
>>> Please let me know what you think about this.
>>
>> I'm fine with removing it. The 5.12 branch doesn't have the later
>> fix for the bd_size_lock issue, so could you just resend that once
>> the merge window opens and the block bits have gone in? In case I
>> forget...
> 
> OK. Will do.
> 
> Could you confirm if you received patch #1 ? It looks like the list server is
> dropping it likely because it is too big.

The list is a huge mess these days, including lore. So not sure what is
going on. I did receive it, but it wasn't on lore, hence probably only
because I was CC'ed on it.

-- 
Jens Axboe