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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:14:14 -0700
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:45:17PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> ZBC drives are close to disk devices, so sd.c is well
> suited as a testbed for ZBC devices.
> This patch introduces a module option 'attach_zbc' to
> sd which will make the sd driver accept ZBC
> devices as normal disk drives.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Looks reasonable to me.

I'd also really like a sysfs file that tells us if we're dealing
with a host aware device, as those report as TYPE_SBC.