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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgpobox@gmail.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	osd-dev@open-osd.org
Subject: Re: state of the osdblk driver?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 06:01:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141021130118.GA6122@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544655E8.8070004@electrozaur.com>

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:47:36PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> It is used in testing, its a good way to compare ext4 over objects
> vs exofs over objects, kind of compare apples with apples.
> (Also at the get go it was a good test that found some bugs in the
>  bring up of the osd target)
> 
> If there is an old tagging API need removing its fine to just drop
> the support, and/or do the minimal change possible. What was the
> tag used for anyway?
> 
> If it bothers you very much then please remove it, send a patch
> and I'll ACK it.

I'm mostly just trying to figure out if anyone cares.  Would you be
willing to sign up as a maintainer, and maybe even look into a blk-mq
conversion?  I'd be happy to help to answer questions and review it.

> [Just that I thought we don't do that. I can show you a dozen
>  ISA scsi LLD controllers which are a complete pain in the neck
>  with a all subsection core support. There is not a single system
>  on the planet that has this even possible, yet we do not remove
>  them nor the ISA bus crap. osdblk at least is a SW only exercise
>  that can be very much valid in any system.
> ]

Not sure what exactly you mean, but I'm open to any serious proposal to
get rid of not actually usable cruft in old SCSI HBA drivers.  Feel
free to send a proposal to linux-scsi - I was planning to come up with
one of my own, but never got to it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-21 12:06 state of the osdblk driver? Christoph Hellwig
2014-10-21 12:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-10-21 12:47   ` Boaz Harrosh
2014-10-21 12:56     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-10-21 13:01     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-10-21 13:24       ` Boaz Harrosh

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