Re: [RESEND PATCH] dm-ebs: Mark full buffer dirty even on partial write

Uladzislau Rezki
2025-11-19T09:13:56Z

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:05:30AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:01:25AM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > Again i rely on this.
>
> I'm not sure what your random quoting of low-quality comments in
> kernel code is trying to prove here.
>
> Any device that does not support the LBA/sector size correctly is
> not support by Linux. We could in theory quirk it in the driver,
> but for that we'd need to known the vendor/model and a good argument
> why we can't fix the device reporting, as this should just be firmware.
>
> Secrecy is not going to help with that.
>
I will not resist.

I tried my best to explain the problem including description and steps
how to reproduce it in the commit message if someone wants to repeat it
in qemu with virtual nvme device.

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Uladzisual Rezki