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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] scsi: hisi_sas: Add support for DIF feature for v3 hw
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:14:43 -0500
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John,

> Are you happy for us to make DIX support in this driver "hisi_sas DIX
> experimental" short term?

That's entirely your call, it's your driver/controller.  I just want the
experimental tag to be due to reasons on *your* end.

If it's reasons on my end they'll need to get fixed. We shouldn't have
drivers circumventing features because of bugs in the core block/SCSI
code...

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering