From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Cc: martin.petersen@oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] target_core_iblock: Allow iblock devices to be shared
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:32:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1h5z1rr6e.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250721185145.20913-1-michael.christie@oracle.com> (Mike Christie's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:51:45 -0500")
Mike,
> We might be running a local application that also interacts with the
> backing device. In this setup we have some clustering type of software
> that manages the ownwer of it, so we don't want the kernel to restrict
> us. This patch allows the user to control if the driver gets exclusive
> access.
Applied to 6.17/scsi-staging, thanks!
--
Martin K. Petersen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-25 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-21 18:51 [PATCH 1/1] target_core_iblock: Allow iblock devices to be shared Mike Christie
2025-07-25 1:32 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2025-07-31 4:44 ` Martin K. Petersen
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