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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"jens.axboe@oracle.com" <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] Add MMC erase and secure erase
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:21:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100614112150.GA5364@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C160E0E.4010802@nokia.com>

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 02:10:06PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Needs a bio flag, a request flag, setup the request flag based on the
> bio flag, prevent merging secure and non-secure discards, prevent drivers
> doing non-secure discards for secure discards.
> 
> Seems like a lot of little changes for something that no one wants.
> Shouldn't it wait for someone to need it first?

I know that some people have asked for this.  But if you want to keep
it in the driver for now that's fine to me.  But in that case please:

 (a) make it entirely driver private and leave no traces of it in the
     block layer
 (b) split it into a separate patch from the discard support

      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-14 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-13 10:01 [PATCH V2 0/4] Add MMC erase and secure erase Adrian Hunter
2010-06-13 10:38 ` Adrian Hunter
2010-06-14  8:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-14 11:10   ` Adrian Hunter
2010-06-14 11:21     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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