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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] target: Add max_write_same_len device attribute
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:53:12 -0500
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:07:17PM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
> 
> This patch adds a new max_write_same_len device attribute for use with
> WRITE_SAME w/ UNMAP=0 backend emulation.
> 
> Also, update block limits VPD emulation code in spc_emulate_evpd_b0() to
> set the default MAXIMUM WRITE SAME LENGTH value of zero.

why do we need an exposed attribute for this?