From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: martin.petersen@oracle.com (Martin K. Petersen) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:17:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] nvme: Remove SCSI translations In-Reply-To: <1497452191-11429-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com> (Keith Busch's message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:56:31 -0400") References: <1497452191-11429-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com> Message-ID: Keith, > 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. Good riddance! Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering