Re: [PATCH] scsi: ufs: mark HPB support as BROKEN

James Bottomley
2021-10-29T13:44:12Z

On Fri, 2021-10-29 at 13:35 +0000, Avri Altman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2021-10-29 at 12:53 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Given that the discussion is now turning into bikeshedding wether
> > > the non-public UFS spec is mereley completly broken or utterly
> > > completely broken can we please add this patch or the revert
> > > before 5.15 goes in? I don't think this mess will be resolved in
> > > any reasonable time.
> >
> > No. Removing the 2.0 HPB optimization fixes all your complaints
> > about the block API problems, so there's no need to do a full
> > revert. I just need someone to test the partial revert ASAP. If
> > no-one can test the partial revert then we can consider more
> > drastic options.
> I support Daejun's patch, but if this is your final decision, I can
> test it on Sunday. Can you refer me to exact patch needed to be
> tested?

https://lore.kernel.org/all/b2bcc13ccdc584962128a69fa5992936068e1a9b.camel@HansenPartnership.com/

Ideally before Sunday since that's when Linus will likely go final with
5.15

Thanks,

James