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From: "Ewan D. Milne" <emilne@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sd: fix sysfs writes to "provisioning_mode" and
 "zeroing_mode"
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 08:52:39 -0400
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To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 17:18 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Bart,
> 
> >> So, are you suggesting we change all the other sysfs store routines?
> >
> > I will leave it to Martin and James to comment on this.
> 
> As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I have a patch that converts all these
> to sysfs_match_string(). Now that the latter is upstream I intend to
> post the patch.
> 

OK good.  One other thing I wanted to check -- I assume it is
intentional that the provisioning mode cannot be set back to "full"
once the device probe has set it and/or it has been manually set via
sysfs?

-Ewan