From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [RFC] libata-scsi: introducing SANITIZE translation Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:49:58 -0700 Message-ID: <1468025398.2390.24.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <577e843e.0a86620a.59167.ffffb899@mx.google.com> <1467910054.2322.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1467998971.2343.10.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:57106 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932223AbcGIAuA (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jul 2016 20:50:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tom Yan Cc: Tejun Heo , martin.petersen@oracle.com, dgilbert@interlog.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-07-08 at 19:38 +0000, Tom Yan wrote: > On 8 July 2016 at 17:29, James Bottomley > wrote: > > Or we could simply patch sg_sanitze to issue the ATA_16 pass > > through when it sees a sata device ... > > > > Ugh that sounds ugly to me. Anyway that's off-topic. Not really. The point is that you've proposed something as an addition to the kernel that can also be done in userspace. Checking if it can work easily there is like a barrier to entry. If it works, then fine, we're done. If it throws up problems then we reconsider the kernel route. James