Re: [PATCH 3/6] block: Create scsi_sense.h for SCSI and ATAPI

Jens Axboe
2018-05-22T23:42:12Z

On May 22, 2018, at 5:31 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:16 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>>> On 5/22/18 1:13 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:09:41PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> I think Martin and Christoph are objecting to moving the code to
>>>> block/scsi_ioctl.h. I don't care too much about where the code is, but
>>>> think it would be nice to have the definitions in a separate header. But
>>>> if they prefer just pulling in all of SCSI for it, well then I guess
>>>> it's pointless to move the header bits. Seems very heavy handed to me,
>>>> though.
>>>
>>> It might be heavy handed for the 3 remaining users of drivers/ide,
>>
>> Brutal :-)
>
> Heh. I noticed a similar sense buffer use in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c
> too. Is this okay under the same considerations?

This is going from somewhat crazy to pretty nuts, imho. I guess in practical terms it doesn’t matter that much, since most folks would be using sr. I still think a split would be vastly superior. Just keep the scsi code in drivers/scsi/ and make it independently selectable.

Jens