Re: [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices

2014-07-30 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 07/29/2014 07:14 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:45:17PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: ZBC drives are close to disk devices, so sd.c is well suited as a testbed for ZBC devices. This patch introduces a module option 'attach_zbc' to sd which will make the sd driver

[PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices

2014-07-30 Thread Hannes Reinecke
ZBC drives are close to disk devices, so sd.c is well suited as a testbed for ZBC devices. This patch introduces a module option 'attach_zbc' to sd which will make the sd driver accept ZBC devices as normal disk drives. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke h...@suse.de --- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 25

Re: [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices

2014-07-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:41:55AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: Yes, eventually. But can't we defer that to a next patchset? I'd really like to have this one in, as it makes dealing with ZAC devices _so much_ easier ... I'm happy to put the sd patch in if I can get another review for it. But

[PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices

2014-07-29 Thread Hannes Reinecke
ZBC drives are close to disk devices, so sd.c is well suited as a testbed for ZBC devices. This patch introduces a module option 'attach_zbc' to sd which will make the sd driver accept ZBC devices as normal disk drives. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke h...@suse.de --- drivers/scsi/sd.c | 25

Re: [PATCH 4/4] sd: Optionally attach to ZBC devices

2014-07-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:45:17PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: ZBC drives are close to disk devices, so sd.c is well suited as a testbed for ZBC devices. This patch introduces a module option 'attach_zbc' to sd which will make the sd driver accept ZBC devices as normal disk drives.