From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [RFC] libata-scsi: introducing SANITIZE translation Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:44:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <577e843e.0a86620a.59167.ffffb899@mx.google.com> <1467910054.2322.7.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1467998971.2343.10.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1468025398.2390.24.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail3.start.ca ([64.140.120.243]:46092 "EHLO mail3.start.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932707AbcJZWyJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Oct 2016 18:54:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Tom Yan , James Bottomley Cc: Tejun Heo , martin.petersen@oracle.com, dgilbert@interlog.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 16-07-11 02:35 AM, Tom Yan wrote: > I don't suppose there would be any problem doing it in userspace / > with ATA PASS-THROUGH anyway. .. >>> On 8 July 2016 at 17:29, James Bottomley >>> wrote: .. >> Not really. The point is that you've proposed something as an addition >> to the kernel that can also be done in userspace. Checking if it can >> work easily there is like a barrier to entry. If it works, then fine, >> we're done. If it throws up problems then we reconsider the kernel >> route. hdparm has full support for the SANITIZE commands in userspace. -ml