From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 18:16:28 +0100 Message-ID: <20190205171628.GA2129@lst.de> References: <20190201075557.9249-1-hch@lst.de> <3be11773-5ea9-4c08-25a5-dc556ded2d6f@electrozaur.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3be11773-5ea9-4c08-25a5-dc556ded2d6f@electrozaur.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Christoph Hellwig , axboe@kernel.dk, martin.petersen@oracle.com, Johannes Thumshirn , Benjamin Block , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 10:31:39PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 01/02/19 09:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout > > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we > > removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without > > real life users. > > > > The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the > > way of block / SCSI changes, > > For the 4th time: Which ? Speeding up the I/O path for example. Making sense of SCSI command allocation for another. Having to deal with sense data handling for the duplicate scsi command allocation as a third.