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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
To: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>, "axboe@kernel.dk" <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mst@redhat.com" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	"dann.frazier@canonical.com" <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] virtio_blk: Fix an SG_IO regression
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 04:33:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1508992426.8734.3.camel@wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171025193752.GA6164@lst.de>

On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 21:37 +0200, hch@lst.de wrote:
> Honestly I think the right fix is to just kill the SCSI passthrough
> in virtio.  It has been replaced by virtio-scsi a long time ago, and
> has been disabled by default in qemu for a long time (and I don't
> think any other hypervisor ever supported it).
> 
> It should never have been added (saying that as the person who added
> it).

Hello Christoph,

Sorry but I'm not familiar enough with the virtio_blk driver to do that
removal myself. Since the patch at the start of this e-mail thread has
a "Cc: stable" tag, can you submit such a patch after this patch went
in?

Thanks,

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-26  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-25  9:56 [PATCH v2] virtio_blk: Fix an SG_IO regression Bart Van Assche
2017-10-25 18:23 ` Jens Axboe
2017-10-25 19:25   ` Bart Van Assche
2017-10-25 19:34     ` Jens Axboe
2017-10-25 19:37       ` hch
2017-10-26  4:33         ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2017-10-26  4:38           ` Jens Axboe
2017-10-26  4:44       ` Bart Van Assche

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