From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hsh@infradead.org>,
James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:14:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140729171414.GA1060@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406645117-53088-5-git-send-email-hare@suse.de>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-29 14:45 [PATCHv3 0/4] Initial SMR drive support Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 1/4] libata: consolidate ata_dev_classify() Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 2/4] libata: Implement ATA_DEV_ZAC Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] libata-scsi: Update SATL for ZAC drives Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 17:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-30 6:18 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 14:45 ` [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-29 17:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-07-30 6:41 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-30 11:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2014-07-30 7:55 [PATCHv4 0/4] Initial SMR drive support Hannes Reinecke
2014-07-30 7:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices Hannes Reinecke
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