From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: Is there any plan to support 64bit lun in mainline? Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:20:49 -0400 Message-ID: <526402E1.5060007@interlog.com> References: <525BC836.2030306@suse.de> <20131014152950.GA6625@infradead.org> Reply-To: dgilbert@interlog.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.infotech.no ([82.134.31.41]:49838 "EHLO smtp.infotech.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227Ab3JTQU4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:20:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20131014152950.GA6625@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig , Hannes Reinecke Cc: "Wangshen (C)" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "Jinbo (Justin)" On 13-10-14 11:29 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:32:22PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> However, there are two other patchsets pending (EH Deadline and >> asynchronous command aborts), both of which have been tested >> thoroughly _and_ have acked-by from various other parties. >> None of these patchset had received any feedback from James >> Bottomley, let alone any indication if or when they'll be merged. >> >> So I stopped sending further patchsets, sensing some communication >> breakdown on the line. > > Maybe we'll need to start a common scsi staging tree for all patches > that have gotten a wide amount of reviews and are interesting to many > parties. Thay way we have one common set of patches for the > distributions to pull from, and a tree to develop against where > dependencies between the patchsets exist. Sounds like a good idea. Like Hannes I have several patches that haven't been rejected but seem to have been lost in the process: - expand the SG_SCSI_RESET ioctl() to include non reset escalating variants - permit the sg driver to accept SCSI cdbs greater than 16 bytes long (bsg already can) Also I have done some work in sg3_utils to support 64 bit LUNs in Linux. That work assumes the solution proposed by Hannes. Doug Gilbert