From: axboe@kernel.dk (Jens Axboe)
Subject: [PATCH] nvme: Remove SCSI translations
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:50:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <117ed46c-e1db-c5eb-129d-34950ca883d7@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1497452191-11429-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com>
On 06/14/2017 08:56 AM, Keith Busch wrote:
> The SCSI-to-NVMe translations were added to assist storage applications
> utilizing SG_IO transitioning to NVMe. It was always recommended, however,
> to use native NVMe for device management: too much is lost in translation
> and the maintenance burden in keeping this kludgey layer around has been
> neglected such that much of the translations are completely broken.
>
> This patch removes SG_IO handling from NVMe. The config option has been
> disabled by default for quite some time now, so hopefully it's safe to
> remove. If not, this will force people to do the right thing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
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Jens Axboe
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-14 14:56 [PATCH] nvme: Remove SCSI translations Keith Busch
2017-06-14 14:50 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2017-06-14 15:17 ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-06-14 15:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-15 9:18 ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-06-15 9:47 ` Max Gurtovoy
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