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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Separate zone requests from medium access requests
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:52:31 -0500
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>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

Christoph> I don't really like this too much - this is too many SCSI
Christoph> specifics for the block layer to care.  Maybe using bios for
Christoph> the zone ops was a mistake after all, and we should just have
Christoph> operations in struct block_device instead..

Yeah, I'm afraid I don't like this either.

Short term I still think we should adjust in sd. And then maybe longer
term revisit whether these hybrid commands should be something other
than bios.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering