From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] scsi: Make use of bus callbacks
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 23:04:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aTkbiHE45DDeQhH3@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77keukzmb57v2jyf26ulsystu77f2k5ta5k2vjxk5hygypzb7c@4kvu4hdty3o6>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 07:56:10AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 09:26:40PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 10:22:54PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > I decided not to do that as part of this patch set. In case I missed a
> > > driver and for oot drivers I think it's nice and fair to not break them
> > > immediately and give its users/developers a chance to see the warning
> > > and act on it.
> >
> > No one should care about out of tree drivers. On the other hand
> > unfinished transitions are really annoying and have a tendency to
> > go stale. So please go the final steps and finish it.
>
> Given that the whole quest to remove the device_driver callbacks will go
> on for a few kernel releases and completing the transition for scsi
> yields to broken drivers without compile time issues if something is
> missed, I think it's sensible to keep them in the "working with warning"
> state for a release cycle (or even until the driver callbacks go away).
You will notice very quickly when they break. And it's not like there's
a lot of them to start with. Please just finish up the conversion
instead of leaving it lingering.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-10 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-09 20:45 [PATCH 0/8] scsi: Make use of bus callbacks Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-09 20:45 ` [PATCH 1/8] scsi: Pass a struct scsi_driver to scsi_{,un}register_driver() Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-10 13:14 ` Peter Wang (王信友)
2025-12-09 20:45 ` [PATCH 2/8] scsi: Make use of bus callbacks Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-09 20:59 ` Bart Van Assche
2025-12-09 21:22 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-10 5:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-12-10 6:56 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-10 7:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-12-10 10:34 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-09 21:00 ` Bart Van Assche
2025-12-09 21:26 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-09 20:45 ` [PATCH 3/8] scsi: ch: Convert to scsi bus methods Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-09 20:45 ` [PATCH 4/8] scsi: sd: " Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-10 9:20 ` kernel test robot
2025-12-10 9:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-15 4:10 ` kernel test robot
2025-12-09 20:45 ` [PATCH 5/8] scsi: ses: " Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-09 20:45 ` [PATCH 6/8] scsi: sr: " Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-09 20:45 ` [PATCH 7/8] scsi: st: " Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-09 20:45 ` [PATCH 8/8] scsi: ufs: " Uwe Kleine-König
2025-12-10 13:14 ` Peter Wang (王信友)
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