From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
axboe@kernel.dk, martin.petersen@oracle.com,
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 18:16:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190205171628.GA2129@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3be11773-5ea9-4c08-25a5-dc556ded2d6f@electrozaur.com>
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 10:31:39PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 01/02/19 09:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The only real user of the T10 OSD protocol, the pNFS object layout
> > driver never went to the point of having shipping products, and we
> > removed it 1.5 years ago. Exofs is just a simple example without
> > real life users.
> >
> > The code has been mostly unmaintained for years and is getting in the
> > way of block / SCSI changes,
>
> For the 4th time: Which ?
Speeding up the I/O path for example. Making sense of SCSI
command allocation for another. Having to deal with sense data
handling for the duplicate scsi command allocation as a third.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-05 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-01 7:55 remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4 Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 1/8] bsg: refactor bsg_ioctl Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 2/8] bsg-lib: handle bidi requests without block layer help Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 3/8] fs: remove exofs Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 4/8] scsi: remove the SCSI OSD library Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] scsi: remove bidirectional command support Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 6/8] scsi: stop setting up request->special Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 7/8] block: remove req->special Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-04 8:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 7:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: remove bidi support Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-01 15:13 ` remove exofs, the T10 OSD code and block/scsi bidi support V4 Jens Axboe
2019-02-04 20:31 ` Boaz Harrosh
2019-02-05 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-02-05 3:47 ` Martin K. Petersen
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