From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Separate zone requests from medium access requests Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:52:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20170228102535.15966-1-damien.lemoal@wdc.com> <20170228160259.GA22755@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:23772 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750957AbdCACxq (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:53:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170228160259.GA22755@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:02:59 +0100") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Damien Le Moal , Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, "Martin K . Petersen" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com, Hannes Reinecke , Bart Van Assche >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig writes: Christoph> I don't really like this too much - this is too many SCSI Christoph> specifics for the block layer to care. Maybe using bios for Christoph> the zone ops was a mistake after all, and we should just have Christoph> operations in struct block_device instead.. Yeah, I'm afraid I don't like this either. Short term I still think we should adjust in sd. And then maybe longer term revisit whether these hybrid commands should be something other than bios. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering