On 12/12/19 5:37 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Since the need for a special flag to support SCSI passthrough on a
block device was added in May 2017 the SCSI passthrough support in
virtio-blk has been disabled.  It has always been a bad idea
(just ask the original author..) and we have virtio-scsi for proper
passthrough.  The feature also never made it into the virtio 1.0
or later specifications.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
---
  arch/powerpc/configs/guest.config |   1 -
  drivers/block/Kconfig             |  10 ---
  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c        | 115 +-----------------------------
  3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 125 deletions(-)

I'm all for it.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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